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

"As American As Mom and
Apple Pie,"
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Artist Statement

Maria Cristina Jadick

Picture

    My interactive project, "As American As Mom and Apple Pie,"
earned a Jurors Award in The Lawndale Art and Performance Center's
"Big Show."  It engaged the community by inviting them to share artistically prepared and conceptually metaphoric apple pie as they participated in conversations about U.S. foreign policy.

    As an Artist and Mother, my time to think about ideas for art projects occurs while managing the day-today activities of the home and family. It is in the home that I feel the emotional impact of that which I hold most dear; my loved ones, my hearth and its standing as a metaphor for our nation and the world. Despite all we individually or collectively as citizens do to "hold our own" and "protect those we love from harm" (including our country,) the precariousness and arbitrariness of life becomes increasingly clear as we reflect back and realize how little power we exert to shape events; most frighteningly, those that recently propelled our nation to war.

    In reaction to this, I am motivated to make art that I call my "enacting Democracy pieces. They are performance installation art works that use nationalistic/patriotic symbolism: the military, Mom, apple pie, to construct tableau that help elicit discussions about American foreign policy. These works engage the public as brcad is collectively broken and conversation ensues. Conflicting pressures and perspectives emerge as we consider our current foreign policy situation. 

    The delicious Artist-made apple pies, whose crusts are emblazoned with the stenciled iconic images of military equipment, such as, Apache helicopters, tanks, F-14 aircraft, nuclear bomb explosion clouds etc. are cut into small, taste-sized, morsels that are offered to Gallery visitors.  Many visitors receive the pie tastes enthusiastically, as they down the apple pie bites quickly with relish, the sweet and fragrant pie, going down easily. The metaphor is not lost, as it showed how things wrapped  in the cover of nationalistic symbolism are hard to resist, more, they are likely accepted with little thought.

Others having thought about the possible meaning of the combination of a quintessential American icon, like Apple Pie, juxtaposed with the subject of war and machines of its violence, decide not to have any.  Some viewed the pies as nationalistic and patriotic gestures.  Others viewed the pies as a critique of American militarism and of an ill-conceived venture into a war in the Middle East that had no good plan for what came afterwards.  The performative nature of the pie exchanges truly embodied  Democracy in action.
  • 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