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JOCELYN MATHEWES is a mixed-media visual artist exploring chronic illness and alternative photographic processes.

Upcoming Exhibits

Para(site)dise
solo exhibition on view at the Contemporary Regional Gallery
August 20, 2026 - January 17, 2027

@ William King Museum of Art
415 Academy Drive
Abingdon, VA 24210

Exhibit Opening w/Live Storytelling
August 20, 2026 @ 4pm

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FEATURED WORK

  • A large mural features numerous 3D geometric shapes resembling polyhedrons, painted in shades of blue, beige, and white, with an abstract splatter pattern, displayed on a white gallery wall.

    PARA(SITE)DISE is an installation formed from hundreds of cyanotype prints of weeds pulled from the artist's garden. As this beautiful document of the invisible labor of maintenance grows, it overtakes and overshadows its surroundings.

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  • A wooden block with tangled wire and sewing materials, including a needle and fabric pieces, arranged on top.

    NEVER THE SAME AGAIN is a sculpture series using IV tubing, wire, fabric, cotton, medical wrap, and a bent Slinky® — a metaphor for the injured body, which must continue on with its limited or new way of functioning, yet it retains its beauty, joy, and meaning.

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  • An art installation of 30 mixed media collages arranged in five rows on a white wall, featuring layered paper, fabric, and other materials with abstract and map-like patterns.

    30 DAYS is a set of mixed-media collages constructed using vintage Betty Crocker recipe cards, road maps, vellum, embroidery, ink, paint, cyanotype, prescription information sheets, medical detritus gauze, hospital bracelets and wire.

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  • Gold and silver beaded curtain hanging in a doorway, with a dark interior beyond. The door is a metal roll-up style with windows to the right.

    MEDICINE THRESHOLD is an interactive sculptural curtain made of prescription medicine bottles, shredded money, gold paint, metallic fibers, and vending machine balls, that invites the viewer to pass through the collaborative research and collective testing that makes medicines possible, feeling and sensing its cost and value.

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  • A circular sculpture made of folded paper with printed text, arranged to create a textured, spiraling pattern on a white background.

    SYMPTOMS/SIDE-EFFECTS is a spiraling paper loop of individual origami elements made from prescription sheets that meditates on the ongoing, everyday nature of managing chronic illness where symptoms in the body are caused by both illness and the medication itself; healing is incomplete, never-ending.

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A person walking in front of a colorful contemporary art portrait on a white gallery wall, depicting a man's face with numerous eye-like patterns on his face and neck, with a vibrant background of pink, red, and blue hues.

Decadron (Hypervigilance)

A blister pack of capsules with a transparent outer shell containing what appears to be shredded paper or leaf fragments with gold flakes.

Spent (Mark 5:26)

Hands holding various pills and tablets on white background.

Insanity Dice

A colorful collage of magazine pages with handwritten words and tags, surrounded by a blue wire frame, mounted on a white wall.

Recovery Quilts

Abstract mixed media artwork with various shapes and colors, primarily blues, blacks, greens, and earth tones, hanging on a white wall.

Sickness is a Place

Mixed media artwork featuring a stylized portrait of a woman with closed eyes, surrounded by textured and layered elements, with red banner-like accents on either side and decorative details.

Within Normal Limits

A wall display of 30 pieces of mixed media artwork arranged in a grid, featuring layered papers, textiles, and various abstract elements.

30 Days

Close-up view of a vertical installation of decorative beads and rods, with some beads being spherical and others cylindrical, made of marble and metal, hanging in front of a bright window.

Medicine Threshold

A circular sculpture made of crumpled and folded paper, resembling a loop or a ring, with a plain white background.

Symptoms/Side-Effects

Art installation of geometric shapes in shades of blue, beige, and gold on a white gallery wall.

Para(site)dise

An art sculpture made of tangled metal wires, threads, and fabric, mounted on a small wooden block.

Never the Same Again

IN THE STUDIO

Jocelyn lays down on the lawn next to a cyanotype print actively being exposed to the sun.

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Jocelyn's magnetic studio wall, with art pinned up all over it.
Jocelyn's garage workspace, where she prints cyanotypes in a darkroom sink.