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
Picture
Connection Disconnection
Maria Cristina Jadick
Artist Statement
 
    Connection Disconnection, a photo-essay installation commissioned for the "Fotofest 2000 Biennial," addressed the topic of “urban dislocation.” It was installed inside a large retail window space at Foley's, a big chain Department Store.  It incorporated bricolage, a performative, shadow photo-essay mounted on foamcore, a few objects suspended from the ceiling, and a black and white, shadow performance video playing on a tv monitor that sat on a pedestal.  Its floor was covered in 200 lbs. of dried, yellow corn seed along with 
pieces of a large, unfinished puzzle. The video, which was produced by the Artist, was a composite of shadow photographs taken of anonymous people encountered amidst the architecture and cityscape that they inhabited during her sporadic site visits to downtown Houston.  

Connection Disconnection
Connection Disconnection
How does one connect with other people in such a large city
when the pace is so rapid
and everyone seems to be rushing around
trying to get to the next urgent demand on their time that needs addressing?
So, despite many people being in close physical proximity to each other,
isolation,
alienation.
The people look at each other as they pass by,
walking or running, but not making eye contact and not really seeing each other.
There is no connection, there is a disconnection,
a kind of anonymity between each other which takes place
and which may or may not be intentional but which happens all the same,
time and again
the gap ever widening



  • 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