Jeff Horwat is an artist, a teacher and a writer from Pennsylvania. His artwork uses a whimsical and playful visual language to express ideas about identity, religion, and philosophy. This visual language is primarily composed of toys that exist in an ambiguous checkered floored universe.  Jeff draws strong influences from archetypal symbolism, dreams, personal experiences, 90’s alternative rock music and religious iconography. Through the relationships and juxtapositions of these toys with other objects, different meanings and narratives are formed.

Jeff currently resides in Champaign, Illinois where he’s working towards a Ph.D in Art Education at the University of Illinois while continuing to making art.

Contact:

jeffhorwat@gmail.com

Education:

M.S. Art Education, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston MA, 2007.

B.S. Art Education, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown PA, 2004.

Shows:

Good Vs Evil, Group Exhibition, Space 242, Boston MA, 2011

Fatal Transgressions: A Septette, Group Exhibition, Colo Colo Gallery, New Bedford MA 2010

(More of) The Same New Conclusion, Solo Exhibition, Trinity College, Hartford CT, 2010

Get Your Freak On, Group Exhibition, Space 242, Boston MA, 2010

The Same New Conclusion, Solo Exhibition, Gallery X, New Bedford MA, 2010

Victory Collaborative, Group Exhibition, Victory Brewery, Downingtown PA, 2009

A Bad Idea Gone Funny, Solo Exhibition, Arnheim Gallery,

Boston MA, 2007.

Spaces Revealed, Group Exhibition, Pearl Street Gallery, Brooklyn NY, 2006.

Synergism, Group Exhibition, Oxygen for the Arts Gallery, Reading PA, 2005.

Unrequited, Solo Exhibition, Bear’s Den Gallery, Kutztown PA, 2004.