Jacq Groves
Jacq’s project will be installed on the recently cut down tree ring of a London plane tree. Driven by the destruction of this old, gigantic tree, Jacq will be handing out free risograph postcards to collect participants’ ‘Tree Stories’ throughout the festival.
ARTIST
Jacq Groves
Jacq Groves is an interdisciplinary artist based in Queens, New York. Their project-based practice explores relationships between urban and natural ecological structures and complex bodily systems. Groves is completing a fellowship as the Foundation Fellow in Arts + Sciences at Pratt Institute. They were a 2024 recipient of a Queens Arts Fund grant awarded by NYFA to develop a new project Embodied Infrastructure. They recently created a site-specific solo show for Wave Hill’s Sunroom Project Space in the Bronx. Groves has shown in NYC-based group exhibitions at Essex Flowers, The Jewish Museum, The Wallach Art Gallery, the NARS Foundation, Chashama, Half Gallery and more. They’ve been an artist-in-resident at Vermont Studio Center and the NARS Foundation. They received their MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University.
Fallow Frames Biennial 2024
July 13 — 14, 2024
Ridgewood, Queens NY
2pm — 7pm
24 Empty Tree Beds - 25 Participating Artists
Ridgewood’s sidewalks have over 800 empty tree beds - or roughly one for every 90 residents.
The Fallow Frames Biennial is an upcoming public art festival that will be held on July 13th and 14th, where local artists are invited to use 24 abandoned tree beds to stage site-specific installations and performances.
Visitors are invited to wander the neighborhood as active participants in a larger narrative of renewal and artistic expression - and to spark conversations about urban ecology and these small neglected patches of the city’s landscape.
Festival Map