For years we have recommended artists to apply to Photolucida's Critical Mass (online review), and this year marked the first time jdc Fine Art was invited to review at the bi-annual portfolio review in Portland. (We represented the programming choices of both Schneider Gallery and jdc Fine Art at the review.) The Photolucida initiative is an arts nonprofit whose mission is "to provide platforms that expand, inspire, educate, & connect the regional, national & international photography community," and their aims were more than achieved.
Read morejdc Curates for The Center for Fine Art Photography
Dreams connect the space between real and surreal. They derive from fragments of our stream of consciousness. Our life’s memories, our desires, and our fears reshuffle and play-back in visions that may appear obscured by double-vision, or be crystalized by a hyper-real clarity. Often, they exist with the support of an uncanny logic or disjointed symbolism. Whether hopeful or menacing, dreams pull on the strings of our most raw and primal emotions.
Read morejdc Fine Art Celebrates 5 Years in Business
Untitled (Woman with Birthday Cake) by Luis Gonzalez-Palma
This April, the Gallery celebrates its 5-Year Anniversary. Special thanks to our Artists for their work & our Patrons for their support.
We are here because of YOU.
jdc Fine Art will be celebrating this milestone all month with a look back at work we have exhibited at the Gallery on our Instagram feed. To join the recap, follow @jdcFineArt and the #jdcCelebrates5. Be sure to "like" your favorites and contact the gallery to bring a work offline and into YOUR personal collection.
Read morejdc in Black & White Magazine
Paul Turounet, Retablo 28 from Estamos Buscando A
Larry Lytle of Black & White Magazine authored a 2-page story on Director, Jennifer DeCarlo, in the April issue. We were the first subject in a new column on Art Dealers. We are honored by the coverage; excerpt follows.
DeCarlo feels a sense of responsibility to the larger art community. She explains, “I’m trying to cultivate the next generation of artists as well as cultural consumers. Keeping a gallery open to the public is very important to a sustainable and healthy cultural community . . . We vet, make sense of and help decode the current work. We provide the viewer a place to see the work, mark it in time and place, and create a history through exhibitions.” - Larry Lytle
Read morejdc in Photograph Magazine
jdc Fine Art Director, Jennifer DeCarlo, is the feature of Photograph Magazine’s In Profile column by Sarah Schmerler.
Excerpt:
DeCarlo’s eclectic stable favors work with complex and often elegiac narratives, including imagery by Mexican-born Tatiana Parcero, who overlays images of her own body with cosmological maps and anatomical diagrams, and Paul Turounet, whose recent exhibition at the New Mexico State University Art Gallery displayed his photographs of illegal immigrants on an actual wall salvaged from the border between the U.S. and Mexico. “The border is just 20 minutes from my house,” says DeCarlo. “We should just have as our motto ‘Let Art Lead The Way.’ I may run this gallery by myself, but I almost always use the plural when I refer to what we do here. It’s the artists, and all the collaborators, and all the vast issues that surround us. It’s not just me.”
Read the full story by Sarah Schmerler in Photograph Magazine, November 2015.
Looking at & Talking About Art with SDAI
Funding for the Arts Month: Looking at & Talking About Art
This event is being hosted at the San Diego Institute of Art (SDAI) as part of Funding for the Arts Month. The workshop and panel discussion will address the anxieties engendered by the relative exclusivity of the art world. Presenters include: Jennifer DeCarlo of jdc Fine Art; Larry Baza, chair of the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture; Patricia Frischer, Founder of the San Diego Visual Arts Network, and Alessandra Montezuma, Professor of Fine Art and Director of Mesa College Art Gallery.
Learn more about this and related programming here.
jdc in Modern Luxury Magazine
Honored by the feature in Riviera Magazine
San Diego's Edition of Modern Luxury
San Diego’s visual arts scene has never been so captivating. We present the tastemakers, the rule breakers and the big-deal venues.
The space is small, just like its petite owner, but JDC Fine Art (jdcfineart.com) has outsize ambition. Chicago transplant Jennifer DeCarlo reps museum-quality artists at her contemporary photography gallery in Little Italy. And she doesn’t shy away from edgy subjects.
Read the Full feature in the annual Arts & Power column.