Collection: JASON WOODBERRY

Multimedia artist Jason Woodberry enters civil and political discourse with Afrofuturist works that imagine a world conjured from the will, potential, and past and present achievements of Black people. His richly hued camouflage reimagines traditional military tactical kit as a contemporary tool of cultural survival, visual disruption, social harmony, creative expression, and an anchoring of identity. The LHAXX Afrofuturistic text/hieroglyphics are an evolving aesthetic language inspired by his own genealogical research and the poignant and complicated cellular life of unwitting medical test subject, Henrietta Lacks. The works reference perception, ownership, and the relational. Envisioning exhilarating futures, Woodberry’s ring works embrace Africa’s oft
looping and cyclical relationship with time where the past resides in the future, as the future lives in the past, and the present dictates the relationship between the two. Woodberry’s exhibition and residency history include McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Ackland Art Museum, and Miami’s Locust Projects. His multimedia initiative, Intergalactic Soul, with collaborative partner Marcus Kiser remains vibrant.