THE FUTURE UNCERTAIN APEX GALLERY, RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA • USA • 2019
Artist Jason Kofke’s new exhibition explores perceptions of change, philosophies of uncertainty, and how what we might expect in the future may not always be the outcome that is predictable.
Kofke is a visiting artist at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. He joins the Apex Gallery and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology to present recent works from an expedition to villages deep in the Sahara Desert of eastern Mauritania, Africa.
COMPENDIA (with MIKE GERMON) CENTERFORM GALLERY, ATLANTA • USA • 2017
Com·pen·di·um / kəmˈpendēəm (noun) plural noun: compendia 1. a collection of concise but detailed information about a particular subject, especially in a book or other publication 2. a summary, epitome, or abridgment
Jason Kofke and Mike Germon’s Compendia, a Twin Radius exhibition on display at CenterForm through September 1, is a collaborative meshing of new and older works by the two Atlanta artists. This juxtaposition is particularly appropriate and potent, since both Kofke and Germon are known for using images from mid-twentieth-century encyclopedias to comment both on that era’s optimism and on our contemporary condition.
AS SIMPLY AS POSSIBLE FOR A GENERAL AUDIENCE
TECHNOLOGY TODAY ST TAMMANY ART GALLERY, NEW ORLEANS • USA • 2016
Using mainly salvaged materials, Jason Kofke uses art to study and explore a variety of past cultural phenomena. A native of Atlanta, Kofke is the recipient of a 2011 Artadia Grant and a 2009 Idea Capital Grant. Join us for the opening reception for this new exhibit on Saturday, December 10 at 6pm - 9pm. The exhibit will be on display through January 28
WORLD BOOK (AN EXHIBITION of PROGRESS) SANTA FE GALLERY, GAINESVILLE (FL) • USA • 2014
Through an appropriation of outdated media, THE WORLD BOOK explores the affect of the past few decades of educational materials upon those students educated in Northern Florida. Using media specific to image production or image manipulation (such as slide projectors, overhead projectors, screens, printing machines, and substrates upon which to draw) This exhibition is built from the devices and images used in American classrooms.
THE WORLD BOOK asks its viewers to identify with a retrospective of those media that informed an incipient perception of the world - through the media of their educational experience.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA 1979 KAI LIN ART GALLERY, ATLANTA • USA • 2014
February 7th, 2014 | ENCYCLOPAEDIA /enˌsīkləˈpēdēə/: a type of reference work – a compendium holding a summary of information.
A Compendium of Modernity features Jason Kofke / Using the printing process, Kofke informs the digital record database of today through the printed Encyclopedias of his youth, so as to understand the printed image. Kofke uses the encyclopedia to remind us of the importance of the printed image, and its ties to our history.
EVERYTHINGALLTOGETHERALLATONCE BEEP BEEP GALLERY, ATLANTA • USA • 2013
September 21 - October 19, 2013
There are instances in human history when, with once gesture; someone attempts to explain all of creation or all of human understanding. In this exhibition, Kofke pays homage to such seemingly futile efforts by referencing attempts at a simple explanation of all things. Mendeleev’s Periodic Table, the Voyager spacecraft’s ‘Golden Record’, and Dr. Garret Lisi’s E-8 model of particles are sources for the images of this show.
THE ENDS (With CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERS) BEEP BEEP GALLERY, ATLANTA • USA • 2012
April 7 - 28, 2012
THE ENDS combines drawings, contemporary artifacts, outdated electronics, and recorded events to decipher potential teleological ends of the modern past.
THE ENDS is a show of related differences: Drawings and multimedia installations, past events and present interpretations, representations and appropriations, proposed meanings and unanswered questions. The material of the recent past is used to communicate an understanding of the recent past and, by default, now.
THE ENDS is a two-person collaborative exhibition of new works by Chris Chambers and Jason Kofke.
AS SIMPLY AS POSSIBLE and FOR A GENERAL AUDIENCE ARCUS PROJECTS, MORIYA • JAPAN • 2010
Through the artist residency ARCUS PROJECTS in Japan (2009) the art installation AS SIMPLY AS POSSIBLE FOR A GENERAL AUDIENCE combines older and young generations, laypeople and scientists, in an exhibit of new research conveyed through outdated technology. This project relies on found 8mm film cameras and projectors to record the workings of Japan’s particle accelerator, the KEK-B Laboratory. These 8mm silent documentaries are presented to primary school classrooms with grandparents and scientists present. The result is a cross-generational understanding of the advanced reseaerch and the media used to record new findings; the future generation influenced directly from the past. and vice versa.
EVERYTHING WILL BE OK (A SHOW of GOOD INTENTIONS) ART HOUSE CO-OP GALLERY, ATLANTA • USA • 2008
Using a practice of salvage ethnography, This exhibition utilizes the things through which events and meanings are communicated: The projection screen in the classroom, the notebook page in the library, the snap shot at the crime scene, the satellite transmission into the living room, the digitized image archive. These devices and their content fabricate our concept of meaning and progress. So as to discern meaning for viewers, this work is a manipulation of communication media and their symbols. EVERYTHING WILL BE OK is an attempt to show relations between events and products, histories and artifacts, images and meanings.