Jocelyn de Lange
instagram: @gutsslutt
jocydelange@gmail.com
Jocelyn is an interdisciplinary artist working in Minneapolis,MN with an investiagtive approach in exploring themes of identity, trauma and the social structures which compose our collective reality. Through an integration of experimental photography techniques and found object based sculpture, her work advocates for the urgency of interconnectedness in a post human world. She is currently working towards a bachelor of fine arts degree in sculpture at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
This website functions as the site of both written and visual documentation of inquiry for sculpture/photo works as they overlap and inform eachother in practice.
Education
BFA, Sculpture
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
May 20th, 2026
Exhibitions and Publications
- Sculpture- ACME Paradox group show, January 24th, 2025
- Sculpture- Made at Mcad 2024 Exhibition, Main gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
- Mixed media works and writing published in Highly Favored Magazine issue 1, vol. 1, November 2022
statement and inquiries I'm curious about the overall patterns and tendencies of relation between people and exploring these semi ephemeral social forces through the inherent presence of interaction found in utilizing garbage and found objects as material. How these objects come to overlap and intertwine with each other is impossible to fully pre determine and most of the time inspiration comes directly from encounters with garbage/materials themselves. I enjoy the opportunity to let the unknown guide me in assembling form, as this allows me to play with, understand and redefine the relationship I or others have with a material or structure as well as its pre-existing contextual relations.
In connection to the garbage, we as workers under capitalism are treated with the same disposability. Our inescapable role as parts in the economic machine, bound to the by-product and waste of our consumerism despite this being our means for survival. Working with garbage as material to me feels like a continuation of contemplating the role of human interaction and connection. The non-biodegradable aspect of the garbage I collect represents the physical impacts of social interactions and exchanges. I play with agency in questioning the function of objects outside of their original context as well as disrupt notions of value in what constitutes garbage and waste.
Growing up alongside the iphone we as a generation have witnessed first hand, humanities increasing dependence on technology. I see the value and meaning of interaction endlessly contorted through digital culture, usually in favor of exploitative capital gains but disguised as ‘real’ happiness through status. What has become clear to me in recent years is the importance of meeting the basic human need for connection and how dependency occurs instead when the connection is not sustainable but rather extractive and exploitative like the foundations of our country.
We are not parts to a machine despite society's efforts to sneakily shape our identities accordingly but rather individual pieces to a collective puzzle. We are always recomposing our sense of self in relation to others and the world around us as it is an ever changing thing.
Skills and Experience
Sculptural/site based
Photography
Fabrication (Plastic/Metal/Wood/Foam/Plaster/ Castables/Glass/Stone/Solid Surface/Textiles) • Installation • Performance Art • Interactive/Experimental Techniques • Kinetic Sculpture • Ceramics • Metal/Plastic Casting • Metalworking (Cutting/Forming/Welding)• Patinas • Flexible Mold Casting • Mold Making • Electric Art • Electrical Wiring • Organic/Mechanized Motion Systems • Concept Design • Conceptual Diagramming • Documentation • Presentation Techniques • Assemblage
Tools/Equipment
- Hand Tools
- MIG/TIG Welders
- Power Tools
- wood working
- soldering
Chemical Recipes • Chemigrams• Cyanotypes • Darkroom Processes/Experimental • Digital/Analog Photography •Digital Printing • Digital Scanning • Documentary Photography • Event Photography • Film Processing (Black&white) • Lighting (Studio Set/ Portrait/Architectural/Electronic Flash/ Continuous) • Non-Camera Image Making • Silver Gelatin Printing • Photo Editing/Retouching • Photo Book Production • Artist book production • Portraiture • Studio Photography
Tools/ Equipment
- 35mm Film
- Roll Film
- DSLRs
- Large Format Cameras
- Lightroom
Last Updated 24.10.31