Jay Ticar’s current visual art practices involve painting,
participation-based installation, art education and research, pursued
respectively yet found most of time to be in natural connection to each other.
In his paintings, he articulates and forms imagery based on his dealings with conceptual constructs that begins with a definite subject. His tendency to seek possibilities is akin to abstraction but his elements involve both representational and pure forms. Each of these elements is free to portray varying significations ranging from expressive gestures, decoration or symbols. Allowing shifts of role to happen for a single element and pushing each to discover possibilities, leads him to places indeterminate of his take off. His recent subject involves a Filipino cultural phenomena in dream house building related to general ideas pertaining to immigration in Canada, through the scope of his own family experiences.
His recent installation work is a participation-based
project involving the culture of an indigenous community facing modernization. His
project responds by attempting to collect freely given cultural knowledge from
the community. He constructed a library-like/multi purpose facility set in
everyday context, placing 900 volumes of blank books in a public place free for
anybody to write, doodle or record anything. The installation intends to form
in time a future source of cultural records and to instill an image portraying
everyday people as legitimate sources of knowledge.
The concerns of his current research includes relating artistic
and cultural meaning from the immigration of sound, installation with immigrant
audience participation, and the use of sound as a medium to connect
face-to-face social engagements to virtual social networks.
Jay Ticar formally taught studio and theory related
subjects required for basic appreciation and art making. He also pursues other
avenues to contribute to knowledge and pedagogy including through his works and
discussion with peers. A basic thrust in his idea of art education geared towards developing active audiences of art, is that of
presenting his students consciousness of elements and factors at play that
serve as choices they can activate for whatever use they see fit.
Jay Ticar’s practice in visual art began in Manila where he
initially trained as a painter and did most of his earlier exhibitions. He was
bestowed a Monbukagakusho scholarship leading him to stay in Tokyo for 4 years
and also the accomplishment of his MFA. He was again awarded a research
fellowship that allowed him to continue in Tokyo and in addition, live and work
in Indonesia. Now he is based in Toronto as a permanent resident but continues
his connection in the countries where he lived.
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