ROBERTO JAMORA
Selected Work
JUNE 2023
ROBERTO JAMORA
Artist Statement
Each gradient is a vignette of an experience or place in my Passing Memories series. I attempt to commit important events in my life to memory via painting. I mine color from memory and photos I’ve taken/have been tagged in on social media. Cold wax and oil paint are swiped across the canvas to conceal extraneous possibilities and to limit sentimentality. A thin trace of landscape is revealed. Skin tones, days at the beach, climbing a mountain with a lover, my parents’ backyard, a city sidewalk, the bayous in Louisiana where my ancestors once lived. Color triggers these recollections.
Earlier in 2018, I had the privilege of receiving an Artist Community Engagement Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation to fund my socially engaged paintings. The title of my project, An Inventory of Traces, is inspired by Edward Said’s Orientalism where Said writes “In many ways my study of Orientalism has been an attempt to inventory the traces upon me, the Oriental subject, of the culture whose domination has been so powerful a factor in the life of all Orientals.” Thru abstraction, I wanted to celebrate the lives of immigrants. I met with immigrant artists and writers in NYC to learn about the traces the world has left upon them. Their stories inspired the color, composition, and literal traces on my paintings for which I am so grateful.
Venice and Berlin With My Love, 2022
Acrylic and pumice medium on canvas
43 x 35 inches
$8,000
Neltje’s Ranch, 2022
Acrylic and pumice medium on canvas over panel 43 x 35 inches
$8,000
Border Crossers, 2022
Acrylic and pumice medium on canvas
43 x 35 inches
$8,000
Snake Hills, 2022
Acrylic and pumice medium on canvas
20 x 24 inches
$2,000
XX, 2022
Acrylic and pumice medium on canvas 20 x 24 inches
$2,000
Heat Lightning, 2022
Acrylic and pumice medium on canvas
60 x 48 inches
$10,000
Cloudy Dawn in the South of France, 2022
Acrylic and pumice medium on canvas over panel 20 x 15 inches
$1,500
Arrivals,
2022
Acrylic and pumice medium on canvas
20 x 24 inches
$2,000
Precipice, 2022
Acrylic and pumice medium on canvas
44 x 36 inches
$8,000
Vitae, 2015
Oil, beeswax, and acrylic on canvas
56 x 42 inches
$9,000
Triangle Offense / Virginia Beach, 2015 Oil on canvas
72 x 56 inches
$12,000
The Scorched Earth of Pampanga and Las Vegas (In Conversation with Jevijoe Vitug), 2018 Oil and beeswax on canvas
44 x 36 inches
$8,000
Honeymoon, 2020
Acrylic and pumice medium on canvas
44 x 36 inches
$8,000
Roberto Jamora
Abbreviated CV
Lives and works in Richmond, VA
EDUCATION
2013 MFA - Visual Arts, State University of New York at Purchase
2009 BFA - Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2023 POLLINATE, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2020 Where were we?, FLXST Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2019 An Inventory of Traces, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
SELECT COLLECTIONS
Atlanta Hawks NBA Team, Atlanta, GA
Capital One Art Collection, Richmond, VA
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA
Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA
State Farm Art Collection, Atlanta, GA
Taller de Experimentación Plástica - Conarte, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
