by Regin Igloria
Inner Glow, Digital Drawing, 6.5” x 8.5” Detail of page in Artists’ Book, 2024
BIO
Regin Igloria is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in North Chicago. His drawings, artists’ books, sculptures, and performances portray the human condition as it relates to the natural environment and inhabited spaces. In 2010, he founded North Branch Projects, an organization that builds connections through the book arts. Igloria has taught at places such as Marwen, RISD, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Snow City Arts, and Carthage College. He received a 3Arts Next Level Teaching Artist Award as well as local, national, and international grants, artist residencies, and has exhibited internationally. He received his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a multi-disciplinary artist who combines movement, materials, and space to speak about the human condition. I am interested in metaphors for struggle, primarily within the construct of social hierarchies as well as the physical places we inhabit. These include public spaces, cultural landmarks, and the common spectacle, all understood via themes related to Nature.
My relationship to this subject developed from an urban upbringing; one encouraged by the romanticism of a Western value system. The Great Outdoors possesses beauty and awe for me. More often than not, privilege—the kind held by those in power as well as by those who do not—taints my perception of it, making the search for happiness elusive. The gap between opposing forces becomes ever-widening in my exploration, especially as a person of color in white-dominated spaces. Here, construction hinders growth, accumulation betrays worth, and success replaces integrity. This is the continuous plight that drives me.
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