Jay Nelson is a multimedia artist. He writes: “I’m interested in architectural forms because of the weight they carry in our lives. On the most basic level, they provide us with a safe place to rest and think but they also determine the way we interact with each other and create a frame for the outside world. Arranging the pieces of a structure is infinite and those arrangements make us who we are. The objective in my work is using structures to direct an experience. Sometimes I’m directing an experience for myself like with my mobile structures and dwellings and other times I’m directing an experience for an audience. My work is project based, for an exhibit I come up with a vision for the whole show and then build the elements as one piece, which means as a painter the paintings and then the structure that holds the paintings. If I'm building a mobile structure or dwelling its designed around an experience I plan to have, a trip I will take or time I will spend in a structure.”

Nelson’s work has been exhibited in California, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, Denmark, and France. His work is in the collections of Facebook and the Berkeley Art Museum. He lives and works in San Francisco, California.

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