From August 27th to November 5th 2022, the gallery at the Galveston Artist Residency will be an evolving hub that intersects explorations of site, history and time with personal mythology and collective folklore informed by the Galveston region.

Part 1 of Travel in Light Years will open on Saturday, August 27th and Part 2 will open on October 8th. There will additionally be other ongoing public programming in conjunction with this exhibition to be announced in coming weeks. 

Travel in Light Years is partially supported by a grant from the Galveston Cultural Arts Commission, with gratitude.

J.R. Roykovich is a conceptual & research based artist, utilizing photography, video, drawing, performance and installation. The work explores locations to expose and document how the layers of history, mythology and psychic scars of a site can affect the phenomenological intersections of current physical, mental and emotional experiences within that place and time. These explorations result in large installations and mappings based off environmental recollection which serve as a nerve center to explore, document and connect various histories. Roykovich’s research explores the spatial exchanges between existing entities at those locations while documenting geo-spectral networked and system-based transferences.

Roykovich holds a MFA from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, as well as a BFA from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Roykovich has worked and shown throughout the United States, including the New York and Washington, D.C. greater areas, Minneapolis and now the Gulf Coast, starting with being a resident at the Galveston Artist Residency from 2017-2018. Roykovich has been an artist-in-residence at several addtional national and international residencies, and has work in the collections of various private and public institutions.