DVAA Member since 2026
Jeremie Day-Glider
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instagram: @jeremiedayglider
About:
Jeremie Day-Glider is a visual artist, gardener, set designer, videographer, performer, director, teacher, and occasional inventor. She studied art and theatre at a creative arts high school, worked her way through college as a professional gardener, and graduated with a BA in Intaglio Printmaking from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Post college, she worked in Hollywood, CA in film and television; co-owned a videography business in Maine and taught art, theatre, and technical theatre to high school students there. In Maine, she also studied and experienced zen and took Buddhist vows. She then lived abroad for 13 years in Vienna, Austria and Barcelona, Spain where she became an avid student of and then teacher of improvised theatre, all the while freelancing as an artist, director, and theater technician. Since moving from Barcelona to Philadelphia in 2021, she has come full circle and has joyously returned to both professional gardening and creating visual art.
Artist Statement:
As a gardener in the city of Philadelphia, I create pockets of nature within buildings, containers, and holes in sidewalks. They mimic the wild and, simultaneously, are and are not wild. Buddha said in The Great Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra (excerpt), “…form is no other than emptiness, Emptiness no other than form. Form is precisely emptiness, emptiness precisely form...”
In my Printmaking, I’m exploring this idea in both monoprinting and intaglio by pressing tree and plant cuttings to create images that utilize positive and negative space to capture an impression of life and death, and hopefully, allow us to explore our place within it. Barring that, breathe, relax, let your mind wander for a moment.
In my Mixed Media work, I am primarily exploring our perception of ourselves versus society’s perception of who we are and should be. Who are we, who do we want to be, how can we get there?
Reality exists. Each of us only sees a part of it. We create, experience, and perceive it by choosing what we focus on and place through our personal press. What final perception do we share? What is real between you and me?
This in between space holds infinite possibility. There is always a bit of chaos, magic, synchronicity, and luck lurking about. Breathe in, open your eyes and heart, breathe out, and you’re there.
