MARIA CRISTINA JADICK
  • Maria Cristina "Cristy" Jadick
  • Exhibitions
    • Artist Statement / Into Resilience >
      • Into Resilience
    • Artist Statement- Exitium >
      • Furious Flow, Drought and Fire >
        • Furious Flow etc.-Details
        • Furious Flow, Drought and Fire-Video
      • Requiem for a Toxic Deluge >
        • Requiem for a Toxic Deluge-Details
        • Requiem for a Toxic Flow-Video
    • Artist Statement-Wall-installation >
      • Wall
    • Artist Statement/ Extreme Water Mystery Sand >
      • Installations/ Extreme Water Mystery Sand
      • Sculpture-installation/ Photography/ Video
    • Artist Statement/ Coming Home Leaving >
      • Sculptures/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Mixed Media/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Installations/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Artist Book/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Prints/ Coming Home Leaving
    • Artist Statement/ Intervals >
      • Balseros: Freedom Flotilla installation/ Intervals
      • Woeful Wake installation/ Intervals
      • Stocked Motivation: Now and Later installation/ Intervals
      • Hope and a Prayer installation / Intervals
    • Artist Statement/ Fourteen >
      • The Price of Oil $94.375 How Many More? instalation/ FOURTEEN
    • Artist Statement/ Ready to Rumble? >
      • Ready to Rumble? installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Sovereign installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Steak Night: Marinate, Tenderize and Grill installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Jerry's Butcher's Coat or U.S.D.A. Prime, INSP'D & P'S'D installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Strategic Toss installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Mixed Media Drawings/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Football Sculpture Series/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Grilling Meat/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Iraq Steak/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Prints/ Ready To Rumble?
    • Artist Statement/ Irrevocable >
      • Irrevocable installation/ Irrevocable
    • Artist Statement/ Audible Silence/Silencio Sonoroso >
      • Audible Silence installation/ Audible Silence Silencio Sonoroso
      • Artist Book/ Audible Silence
    • Artist Statement/ Connection Disconnection >
      • Connection Disconnection installation/ Connection Disconnection
    • Review/ Cultural Bodies >
      • Mixed Media Paintings/ Cultural Bodies
      • Mixed Media/ Cultural Bodies
      • Prints/ Cultural Bodies
  • Projects
    • Warning Arctic Freeze, Power Grid Fail / Artist Statement >
      • Warning: Arctic Freeze , Power Grid Fail, 2022
    • Compenetrate/ Artist Statement >
      • Compenetrate/ Compenetrate
    • Backdrop- Ilium / Artist Statement
    • Artist Statement/ As American As Mom and Apple Pie >
      • As American As Mom and Apple Pie
      • Installation/ As American As Mom And Apple Pie
    • Artist Statement/ Play Ball >
      • Play Ball - Installation
    • Displacement
    • Retablos
    • Prints: Bosnia: Soul Survivor Series
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • India: Arches, Pillars, Monuments and Doorways, 2011
    • India: Patterns, Textures and Details, 2011
    • Skyscraper Abstractions Houston 2000
    • Ruby's Wigs
    • American Apple Pies
    • Taos, NM: Twilight, Sunset, Landscape and Abstraction, 2013
    • Bare Trees
    • Looming Weather Front 2013
    • Cloud Seeding?
    • San Antonio Mini Twilightscapes 2013
    • Houston Twilightscapes
  • ABOUT
    • ARTIST STATEMENT
    • BIO
    • COLLECTORS
    • CV-RESUME
    • PRESS/PUBLICATIONS >
      • Glasstire Top 5 in TX / Feb 3, 2022
      • Glasstire Online Texas Art Magazine Glasstire Counts down the top five art events in Texas this week.
      • Slow Art: Surpik Angelini’s Serene Privte Kunsthalle in Montrose Offers a Temple to Contemplation and Activism (PDF) | Paper City
      • The IUPLR and History of Houston's Latin Art Now! Conference/ Houston History Magazine
      • Latino Art Now! Shines Light on Talent. Houston Chronicle 3/3/2019
      • Texas Sculpture Group-2012 Interior Exhibition, Curated by Phillip King, San Antonio Art Magazine by Haydee Munoz
      • 2012 Texas Sculpture Group Interior Exhibition Curated by Phillip King
  • News/Contact info

Maria Cristina Jadick / Into Resilience

    Hurricane Harvey an extreme weather event of epic proportions rained over a trillion gallons of water on Houston, causing unprecedented destructive flooding.  Buffalo Bayou, a main waterway in Houston, was the center for much of Harvey's flooding, and is featured during Harvey's aftermath in Jadick's paintings.  Several weeks after Hurricane Harvey's flooding, Jadick, armed with her camera, visited Buffalo Bayou banks and local neighborhoods to survey the damage and document as a witness the storm's staggering effects.  She collected found branches and limbs that had been torn from trees by the battering floodwaters as remnants of the waters violent ferocity.  Jadick later attached those pieces of wood to her paintings as memento mori.

    While driving on her way to help a friend whose home had been flooded, Jadick observed with shock and dismay, how along curbsides, there were high piles of 
discarded contents of 
flooded homes, house after house, street after street.  The piles, stacked half as high as the homes themselves, contained drenched and stained mattresses, furniture, clothing, bedding, books, toys, drywall and pink insulation; remnants of lived life.  She was overtaken with feelings of compassion and sorrow for the families who had lost so much, but later, instead of seeing trauma, Jadick recognized the awesome beauty of brave renewal, and of remarkable overcoming.  It is this new gaze that Jadick conveys with her work that may help us see differently.

    While the works in her "Into Resilience" Solo Exhibition are an evocative investigation of the post Hurricane Harvey flooding event, and despite being a harbinger of more such climate change related events to come, they also bring into focus the resilience and adaptability of those who in the midst of terrible loss, discovered the indomitable human spirit, a spirit which brought people together in recovery and rebuilding in the hope of a better and more sustainable future.  With a sense of urgency, this is the human spirit we need  to cultivate, and rely on, so we can make the changes necessary for better preparedness as we move forward and face whatever is coming. 
  • Maria Cristina "Cristy" Jadick
  • Exhibitions
    • Artist Statement / Into Resilience >
      • Into Resilience
    • Artist Statement- Exitium >
      • Furious Flow, Drought and Fire >
        • Furious Flow etc.-Details
        • Furious Flow, Drought and Fire-Video
      • Requiem for a Toxic Deluge >
        • Requiem for a Toxic Deluge-Details
        • Requiem for a Toxic Flow-Video
    • Artist Statement-Wall-installation >
      • Wall
    • Artist Statement/ Extreme Water Mystery Sand >
      • Installations/ Extreme Water Mystery Sand
      • Sculpture-installation/ Photography/ Video
    • Artist Statement/ Coming Home Leaving >
      • Sculptures/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Mixed Media/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Installations/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Artist Book/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Prints/ Coming Home Leaving
    • Artist Statement/ Intervals >
      • Balseros: Freedom Flotilla installation/ Intervals
      • Woeful Wake installation/ Intervals
      • Stocked Motivation: Now and Later installation/ Intervals
      • Hope and a Prayer installation / Intervals
    • Artist Statement/ Fourteen >
      • The Price of Oil $94.375 How Many More? instalation/ FOURTEEN
    • Artist Statement/ Ready to Rumble? >
      • Ready to Rumble? installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Sovereign installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Steak Night: Marinate, Tenderize and Grill installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Jerry's Butcher's Coat or U.S.D.A. Prime, INSP'D & P'S'D installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Strategic Toss installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Mixed Media Drawings/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Football Sculpture Series/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Grilling Meat/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Iraq Steak/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Prints/ Ready To Rumble?
    • Artist Statement/ Irrevocable >
      • Irrevocable installation/ Irrevocable
    • Artist Statement/ Audible Silence/Silencio Sonoroso >
      • Audible Silence installation/ Audible Silence Silencio Sonoroso
      • Artist Book/ Audible Silence
    • Artist Statement/ Connection Disconnection >
      • Connection Disconnection installation/ Connection Disconnection
    • Review/ Cultural Bodies >
      • Mixed Media Paintings/ Cultural Bodies
      • Mixed Media/ Cultural Bodies
      • Prints/ Cultural Bodies
  • Projects
    • Warning Arctic Freeze, Power Grid Fail / Artist Statement >
      • Warning: Arctic Freeze , Power Grid Fail, 2022
    • Compenetrate/ Artist Statement >
      • Compenetrate/ Compenetrate
    • Backdrop- Ilium / Artist Statement
    • Artist Statement/ As American As Mom and Apple Pie >
      • As American As Mom and Apple Pie
      • Installation/ As American As Mom And Apple Pie
    • Artist Statement/ Play Ball >
      • Play Ball - Installation
    • Displacement
    • Retablos
    • Prints: Bosnia: Soul Survivor Series
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • India: Arches, Pillars, Monuments and Doorways, 2011
    • India: Patterns, Textures and Details, 2011
    • Skyscraper Abstractions Houston 2000
    • Ruby's Wigs
    • American Apple Pies
    • Taos, NM: Twilight, Sunset, Landscape and Abstraction, 2013
    • Bare Trees
    • Looming Weather Front 2013
    • Cloud Seeding?
    • San Antonio Mini Twilightscapes 2013
    • Houston Twilightscapes
  • ABOUT
    • ARTIST STATEMENT
    • BIO
    • COLLECTORS
    • CV-RESUME
    • PRESS/PUBLICATIONS >
      • Glasstire Top 5 in TX / Feb 3, 2022
      • Glasstire Online Texas Art Magazine Glasstire Counts down the top five art events in Texas this week.
      • Slow Art: Surpik Angelini’s Serene Privte Kunsthalle in Montrose Offers a Temple to Contemplation and Activism (PDF) | Paper City
      • The IUPLR and History of Houston's Latin Art Now! Conference/ Houston History Magazine
      • Latino Art Now! Shines Light on Talent. Houston Chronicle 3/3/2019
      • Texas Sculpture Group-2012 Interior Exhibition, Curated by Phillip King, San Antonio Art Magazine by Haydee Munoz
      • 2012 Texas Sculpture Group Interior Exhibition Curated by Phillip King
  • News/Contact info