Jeremy Lundquist is an artist based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Jeremy utilizes both traditional print techniques as well as installation and video while addressing a variety of social and political issues through his artistic practice. He has been an artist-in-residence at Ox-Bow, Harold Arts, Spudnik Press, Kala Art Institute, the Vermont Studio Center, the University of Iowa as a Grant Wood Fellow, and at Highpoint Center for Printmaking as a Jerome Foundation resident. He has also been recognized for his work with a McKnight Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He currently teaches printmaking at Perpich Center for Arts Education and has taught at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Iowa, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Lundquist holds a BA in studio art from Grinnell College and an MFA in printmaking from Ohio University.

Alarm, Cease, Repair, Repeat is an exhibit of new works by Jeremy Lundquist combined with some of his projects created over the past decade. Included is a new series, Repair Repair, that includes a wide variety of print techniques, including lithography, linocut, screenprint, collagraph, and etching. The series is a direct response to Lundquist’s series of fairly uniform etchings from 2021 titled, Alarm Alarm. While Alarm Alarm rather stoically responds to the alarms sounding all around us both domestically and abroad, Repair Repair asks viewers to consider what can be done to heal communities and attempt to end conflict.

Other new works include a large 26”x40” book of a repeating presenter note layered with warning colors. The text from the presenter note is from a PDF file that is meant to explain how to interpret the spaghetti like diagram created for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Afghanistan Stability/COIN (Counter Insurgency) Dynamics." Jeremy created his own version of this diagram as a gridded series of 20 etchings, Stability Dynamics, back in 2013, which will also be shown in this exhibit. Another new work also responds to Stability Dynamics, in the form of an oversized screenprinted pamphlet of “special effects” and products that define “leadership in quality.” This pamphlet’s interior ‘samples’ have been replaced with images of explosions from a current war instead of Afghanistan, the conflict in Gaza.

The exhibit also features Lundquist’s series of lithographs, Promises Made, from 2018, that send a Trump campaign poster image into increasing forms of degradation, questioning the role of truth and fanfare in politics. A new series of works, Appreciations, continue with some of the themes around promises and truth as it centers on images of handshakes, related to treaties and more throughout history.

Jeremy is ultimately interested in constructing images that challenge the accuracy, intention, and effect of persuasive speech about the cyclical and chaotic nature of modern warfare and other socio-political issues. This propaganda is mired in half-truths and contingencies but can lead to fully formed allegiances. In this exhibit, these messages degrade to the point that what is being protected or promised is almost lost. The language is still there but exposed as being empty and broken. The artist’s hope is that this overall body of work will encourage close consideration of this rhetoric and its implications.