About

Jackie Slanley, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist based in Brooklyn NY, crafts narratives using laser-cut plexiglass as her medium. By intricately cutting and assembling plexiglass with nuts and bolts, she constructs a cinematic gradient composed of layered, tinted transparencies. Using images of plant life, animals, and landscapes sourced from public archives, Slanley delves into the intersections of fiction, botany, biology, and technology.

Employing vector software, she translates these inspirations into digital renderings that draw from images rooted in myth and scientific history. She often engages in work that explores where sculpture and materials meet historical symbolism. Through each sculpture, she is engaged in world building by creating her own biome.

Having been an artist in residence at the Ox-Bow School of Art and a sculpture fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, Slanley has shown her work nationally and internationally, with exhibitions in NYC, LA, Kansas City, Washington D.C., and Austria. She’s been in international print publications including ArtMazeMag, WOW Magazine, and Suboart. She holds a BFA in Painting and Visual Art from Hunter College and an MFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute.