Joi is a multi-discipline artist based in Omaha, Nebraska.
Known for mixing maximalism with sustainability, she works with discarded materials and textiles in several disciplines ranging from painting, fashion design and video art.
Known for mixing maximalism with sustainability, she works with discarded materials and textiles in several disciplines ranging from painting, fashion design and video art.
The Art of Presenting One's Self
Exhibited September 2021
MAMO Gallery
Omaha, Nebraska
How do you present yourself to the world?
The Art of Presenting One's Self (2021) is a mixed-media
installation grouped with photographic and silkscreen prints based on fashion, behavior economics and the environment. These works are inspired by my personal experience as a fashion consumer and as a fashion designer.
MAMO Gallery
Omaha, Nebraska
How do you present yourself to the world?
The Art of Presenting One's Self (2021) is a mixed-media
installation grouped with photographic and silkscreen prints based on fashion, behavior economics and the environment. These works are inspired by my personal experience as a fashion consumer and as a fashion designer.
The installation is intended to showcase a cycle of fashion using one common material. Displayed in three parts, the jungle installation represents the start and end of the fashion cycle.
Presented like a department window display, it is to create a juxtaposition of how the
consumer is lured to shop and how fashion trends can be easily be disposed of back into the environment. The photographs illustrate the effect of product placement through an editorial and social influence layout.
Throughout the exhibit, I repurposed grocery bags and transformed them into individual variations of designer handbags. By creating a hand-drawn version of the luxury fashion logo, Louis Vuitton, I applied a separate process to each bag. This is to demonstrate mass production and the influence of brands ranging from counterfeit designer goods to hand-crafted work.
The exhibition invites the viewer to reflect on what pieces do you gravitate to and why.
Contemplate what brands influence you and how do you use them to present yourself to the world.
Presented like a department window display, it is to create a juxtaposition of how the
consumer is lured to shop and how fashion trends can be easily be disposed of back into the environment. The photographs illustrate the effect of product placement through an editorial and social influence layout.
Throughout the exhibit, I repurposed grocery bags and transformed them into individual variations of designer handbags. By creating a hand-drawn version of the luxury fashion logo, Louis Vuitton, I applied a separate process to each bag. This is to demonstrate mass production and the influence of brands ranging from counterfeit designer goods to hand-crafted work.
The exhibition invites the viewer to reflect on what pieces do you gravitate to and why.
Contemplate what brands influence you and how do you use them to present yourself to the world.
From the Art of Presenting One's Self: Never Full Designer Paper Bag Project, silkscreen, reversed upcycled paper bags, July 2021
Staged Photography from The Art of Presenting One's Self: upcycled cardboard purse and cup of noodles prop, August 2021
Staged Photography from The Art of Presenting One's Self: upcycled cardboard purse and beer can prop, August 2021
Each bag was created by hand on repurposed paper bags and cardboard to demonstrate the craftsmanship that goes into each product and offer reflection things that are handmade with luxury labels.
Painting
Maximalist Embroidery
Metamorphosis
Stop Motion video featuring in the opening credits on a Hit Record video on Climate Change in 2021.
Fashion Videos
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