Cameron Jarvis, Mary Kay Cadillac, Mixed Media (acrylic, chalk, pastel, thread, and plastic on canvas), 17” x 17”, 2025

Free Parking

Collaborative Work by Priscilla Briggs and Cameron Jarvis

In Free Parking, Priscilla Briggs and Cameron Jarvis explore their lived experiences as they traverse the road, both in a car and on foot. They contemplate the implications and histories of our designed infrastructure, ideas of access and freedom versus disruption and destruction. Visual and physical artifacts collected along the way become the material of their artwork. In the gallery, the works are arranged as a mapping of their travels and thoughts, beliefs and discoveries. Combining photography, painting, collage, and found objects, this mapping represents a visual conversation between these two artists.

In speaking about his process, Cameron says, “I collect objects because the real world will always communicate more directly yet with more complexity than any painting I could ever conceive of. A forgotten food wrapper or a scrap of rubber from a traffic cone has its own history, place of origin, meaning, and relationship to everything nearby. I think about color, shape, pattern and texture when I decide to pick something up. In some ways it is like finding a single brushstroke already made that I can pick up and keep, and add to a painting at just the right moment.” Similarly, Priscilla says, “I am interested in how identity is shaped by systems and context. I often photograph objects as artifacts that represent the idea of a culture and its particular fetishes at a specific time and place. I photograph objects as reflections of shared, collective identities. For this project, I also photographed objects that Cameron collected and collaged them into my landscape photographs to make connections between car culture and our experience of, and impact on, the environment." 

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