UNREAL by Jacquelyn Strycker

Positive Space Presents Unreal by Brooklyn-based Artist Jacquelyn Strycker Opening December 6

In Unreal, Jacquelyn Strycker, with a practice merging printmaking, collage, and textiles through the process of risograph printing, presents objects that look like one thing but are decidedly another. These works occupy the space between representation and reality, functioning as ideas of quilts, ideas of textiles, ideas of domestic objects rather than the objects themselves. Strycker’s works maintain this amorphous quality, hovering between categories, refusing to settle into a single identity. Unreal invites us to reconsider what we value in objects, and what makes something “real” when authenticity itself has become such a slippery concept.

About the Artist: Jacquelyn Strycker is a Brooklyn-based artist working primarily in printmaking, collage and fibers-based media. She is concerned with the relationship between decoration and function, and invested in material exploration and handicraft. Strycker has a BA in Visual Arts from Columbia University and an MFA from Tyler School of Art. Her work is in the collection of the New York Public Library and Memorial Sloan Kettering, and has recently been exhibited at Print Center New York; Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC; Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ; Kathryn Markel Fine Art, New York; Tyger Tyger Gallery, Asheville, NC; and Collar Works, Troy, NY. She has participated in residencies at Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred, The Women’s Studio Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2023. she was a member of the inaugural cohort of the Print Center New York’s New Voices program. From 2023-24 she was an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). She is a 2024 NYFA Finalist in Painting, and a co-director of Peep Space in Tarrytown, NY.

Unreal, by Jacquelyn Strycker

OPENING: 5-8pm, Saturday, December 6, 2025

PLUS 6pm, Artist Talk, led by Carolyn Sickles, Artistic + Executive Director, Tulsa Artist Fellowship

Continues through Saturday, December 20

Gallery hours during the exhibit: TH 6-8pm + FR 5-8pm + SA 12-5pm + BY APPT

More info: linktr.ee/positivespacetulsa

Contact: Nicole Finley, Founder/Director/Curator - Positive Space Tulsa
nicole@positivespacetulsa.org

Positive Space Tulsa is located at 1324 East 3rd Street in the Pearl District. Positive Space Tulsa was founded by local artist Nicole Finley (she/her). An art space dedicated to Womxn artists, Positive Space Tulsa believes: The letter “x” in Womxn recognizes all women, including gender expansive identities. Positive Space Tulsa is for women, nonbinary, genderfluid, genderqueer, and agender artists (excluding those who identify as male/men). Womxn is pronounced the same as woman or women.