ARTIST STATEMENT
Jacqueline W. Nuzzo’s work explores the tension between order and disorder through biomorphic, ambiguous figures that are entangled within patterned systems. Grids, repetitions, and symmetries operate as both structures of control and sites of instability, where the body presses against, distorts, and reshapes the logic that contains it.
Through iterative processes, she investigates the “edge of chaos”: a threshold where patterns begin to break down, and where the body emerges not as a fixed form but as something mutable, resistant, and in flux. Her figures are neither fully abstract nor fully legible, occupying a space between containment and expansion, surface and depth.
Repetition functions as both constraint and possibility, drawing from art historical, philosophical, and psychological frameworks while remaining grounded in embodied experience. Within these systems, the body does not passively inhabit structure; it interrupts, unsettles, and redefines it, suggesting a continual negotiation between imposed order and lived complexity.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jacqueline W. Nuzzo (b. 1995) is an artist and researcher working in drawing, printmaking and textiles. Jacqueline W. Nuzzo graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2024 with an MFA in Printmedia, and St. Olaf College in 2017 with a BA in Studio Art and Biology. As part of her MFA degree, she published her written thesis “Patterns of Disruption: Repetition and Originality” through The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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