EXHIBITION STATEMENT

My work explores the intricate complexities of faith and personal identity. This series emerges from my experience with stage 1 breast cancer—a diagnosis that, rather than instilling fear, became a profound spiritual calibration. I believe God used this season to shift my focus from the fleeting and visible to the eternal and unseen, prompting me to reevaluate how I engage with both my inner life and the world around me.

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
[ 2 Cor. 4:16–18 ]

Responding directly to my journey, this body of work draws on a color palette and design inspired by the medical environments, equipment, and materials I encountered during treatment. The clear gesso leaves the wood panel’s grain raw and exposed, reflecting the vulnerability I felt throughout this experience. Objects once mundane now hold new significance.

As expressions of my faith and personal narrative, my paintings provide a means of processing these realities. Calibration + Compendium invite viewers to reflect on life’s struggles as purposeful and to consider their own stories through the lens of God’s love and strength.

ARTIST BIO

Jacqueline S. Dulin is a developing Asian American artist based in Garner, NC, whose oil paintings explore the intersections of faith, culture, and identity. Working across abstraction, landscape, and figuration, Dulin examines how form and color evoke emotion and spirituality. Deeply introspective and often autobiographical, her work engages themes of vulnerability, time, and self-perception—treating painting as both contemplation and prayer, offering space for reflection and connection.

Dulin holds a B.F.A. in Painting and Art History from James Madison University. Before relocating to Raleigh in 2007, she worked as an interactive designer with institutions including the Smithsonian’s Freer & Sackler Galleries and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2010, she began painting full-time from her Raleigh studio in the historic Carter Building while also serving as a touring docent at the North Carolina Museum of Art. From 2014 to 2019, she lived in Kosovo, where she founded and directed the Kosovo Art Exchange Gallery (KAE), a nonprofit dedicated to cultural revitalization and civic engagement through the arts.

Since returning to North Carolina, Dulin has exhibited throughout the Southeast at venues including Artspace Raleigh, the Durham Art Guild, The Mint Museum, and NCMA Winston-Salem. Her work has appeared in national juried exhibitions and was selected for the Raleigh Fine Arts Society NC Artists Exhibition in 2023 and 2025. She received the United Arts Wake artist grant in 2023. Her solo exhibition Calibration + Compendium: A Cancer Sojourn(2025) showed at Artspace Richmond and D.A.G. Golden Belt Gallery and will travel to Duke University’s Brown Gallery in spring 2026. Working from her Garner studio, Dulin continues to create art that is personally reflective and spiritually resonant, currently expanding her practice from self-portraiture to collective narratives.

Curated by Jacqueline S. Dulin

Presented by the Durham Art Guild