I am inspired by the built landscape and how we interact with it. I am inspired by handmade signage, vernacular architecture, storefronts and other human made alterations of a place. Signs offering repair work, storefronts selling everyday products and architecture that has been altered in a unique way offer an insight into how our world works. I believe these things are worth celebrating, as they are what create the unique fabric of the places that we live.
I use quilting and found objects in my work. Like a handmade quilt, elements of the urban environment can offer people a sense of place, belonging and safety. They both have traces of the hand that created them and can evolve in unique ways. They can be passed down, altered, mended or repurposed, displayed or discarded. Each is a representation of their physical surroundings and community.
Jeffrey Sincich
b. 1990 Belleair, FL
Based in San Francisco, California
jeffreysincich@gmail.com
Instagram: @jeffreysincich
Exhibitions
2024
Everybody Knows This is Someplace, with Rose D’Amato and curated group show by Jeffrey and Rose - Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Bimbamerica, Group Show - Bim Bam Gallery, Paris, France
Eyes On the Road, Group Show - Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Dallas Art Fair, Charlie James Gallery Booth - Dallas, TX
Felix Art Fair, Charlie James Gallery Booth - Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
2023
OMGWTF, Group Show - Primary, Miami, FL
PACK, Group Show - Good Mother Gallery, Oakland, CA
The de Young Open, Juried Group Show - de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Be Kind Rewind - Bench Gallery at Fayes Coffee, San Francisco, CA
Today Is the Greatest, Group Show - NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA
Working Craft, Group Show - 120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Thank You For Shopping, Two person show with Josh Stover - Pacifica Collectives, Tokyo, Japan
All Makes & Models - Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Felix Art Fair, Charlie James Gallery Booth - Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Pyramid Scheme, group show - Bass and Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA
While-U-Wait - Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022
Around the Corner, Group show curated by Jeffrey Sincich - Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Copy & Paste, Group show - Nucleus House Gallery, Portland, OR
Rostro, Group show - Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Free Estimates - Nucleus Gallery, Portland, OR
Outside - Pacifica Collectives, Tokyo, Japan
2021
OPEN/CLOSED - Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Other Environments, Jeffrey Sincich and Josh Stover - Stephanie Chefas Projects, Portland, OR
2014
Clay? V - Kirkland, Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Within: Without - Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, MT
2013
On The Surface, Group Show - Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
Friends and Influences, Group Show - Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT
2012
Nebraska National Collegiate Juried Art Exhibition - University of Nebraska Lincoln
Cups and Coffee, International Juried Cup Show - NCECA, Seattle, WA
2011
To Go, Group Show - Mendocino Art Center - Mendocino, CA
2010
A New Decade of Clay: 2010 National Juried Ceramics Show - Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, CA, Juror Richard Shaw
Education
2012
BFA, Ceramics, University of Florida
Residencies
2024
Nick’s Cove Artist Residency, Marshall, CA
2023
196 Artists Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Pentaculum Residency, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2015
Pentaculum Residency, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2012
Summer Resident, Clay Studio of Missoula, Missoula, MT
Publications
2023
Juxtapoz Magazine, Sewing Signs: An Interview with Jeffrey Sincich as He Threads the Needle
Popeye Magazine, Japan, superrrrrrr ART WALL
2nd Magazine, Japan, The Visual Performer
2022
Los Angeles Times, A captivating group show at Charlie James Gallery looks at the (figurative) masks we wear
2019
Portland Monthly Magazine, This duo Makes Some of Portland's Most Eye-Catching Signs
2013
500 Figures In Clay, Lark Books, title page
2009
Clay Times magazine, vol. 16, issue 88, page 30, A New Decade of Clay