Bio

Jordin N. H. Herzog is an artist educator raised in Misawa, Japan and currently based in Chicago, Illinois. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an Emphasis in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master of Education in Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership with a focus in Global Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jordin’s work spans painting, photography, printmaking, and weaving. Her work primarily explores themes of nature, waste, and consumerism. She has exhibited locally in the Chicagoland area, nationally, and internationally. She is currently exploring the theme of urban ecology through art-making by participating in the Screech! artist retreat at the Wasteshed in Chicago.

Artist Statement

My work explores themes of nature, waste, and consumerism. My ongoing projects, Reduce, Reuse, Reframe and Urban Avian Architecture, delve into the connections between these topics. 

Reduce, Reuse, Reframe is a series of watercolor paintings made in response to a specific, thrifted frame. The artwork becomes the painting and its frame, as the frame inspired the painting and now cannot be separated from it. The artwork is also the act of preventing an object from permanently residing in a landfill, thus positively impacting the life of the subject in the painting.

Urban Avian Architecture focuses on the challenges faced and overcome by urban birds through the documentation of the man-made materials found incorporated into the nests of Chicago's avian residents. My current body of work evolved from this photography project. I am currently investigating the nests I’ve documented through weaving and tataki zome (叩き染め), the Japanese technique of hammer dyeing.