Welcome! My name is Jasper Duberry, I am glad you stopped by!
I am a printmaker that lives in Minnesota where I grew up most of my life. My relief prints are done through the form of woodcuts.
Art has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I would draw the Rugrats and provide coloring sheets for my kindergarten class. My love for printmaking however, didn't start until I learned the art form in college. I graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin (Go V-hawks!).
Themes that I like to explore are those encompassing the black experience – pain, joy, excellence, healing, and resistance, to a name a few. These themes can be seen in my piece, 13th, tackling the issue of mass incarceration in black communities, in “La La Land” addressing the overshadowing of black excellence, and showing the power of community in “Rally.”
Exploring these themes has provided an avenue for me to reflect and express personal emotions, thoughts and feelings of being a black male in America.
As Michelle Alexander, author of the The new Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness writes, “Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.”
Thanks for stopping by to check out my shop – I hope that you find something that speaks to you. I look forward to seeing you again in the future!
