Manifest Destiny - WormAcrylic painting on 12x12 panel, juxtaposition of abstract and illustrative by Jordan Arp, 2021.

Manifest Destiny - Grasshopper - Jordan Arp -Acrylic painting on 12x12 panel, juxtaposition of abstract and illustrative by Jordan Arp, 2021.

Manifest Destiny - Ladybug - Jordan Arp Acrylic painting on 12x12 panel, juxtaposition of abstract and illustrative by Jordan Arp, 2021.

"The Bananas" – screenprint triptych, 2021"The Bananas" – screenprint triptych, 2021A study in color, code, and colonial residue. Three identical bananas on different backgrounds reference racialized and gendered projections in Western visual culture. The simplicity of the forms contrasts the complexity of their implications—evoking the commodification of identity, the weaponization of humor, and the seductive familiarity of stereotype.This work predates the full installation of the Banana Phone sculpture but laid the groundwork by exploring how visual context warps symbolic meaning. The banana, once again, is the joke, the wound, and the bait.

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💔 Cowardly Heart💔 Cowardly HeartScreenprint, 2015Sometimes the bravest thing I do is keep beating.This piece isn’t about weakness—it’s about the soft parts we shove into corners. The little kid inside, curled up where nobody can see. The one who learned it was safer to hide than to be misunderstood again.They call it “emotional,” like it’s a flaw. But this is anatomy. It’s biology. It’s self-preservation. This heart isn’t broken—it’s fortified. Fragile things survive because they’re careful. Because they listen before they speak. Because sometimes the bravest thing is not fighting, but feeling anyway.You don’t need a lion’s heart to survive.Just one that’s still trying.

🧠 Wheels Turning🧠 Wheels TurningScreenprint, 2015This is what my brain looks like on the inside.Not a mess—just fast. Patterned. Spinning with too many spokes and no brake pedal.It’s the constant hum of analysis, metaphor, memory.The way ideas ping off each other in loops.People see chaos. I see gears.This piece was my way of saying: Just because it doesn’t look linear doesn’t mean it isn’t thinking.It’s neurodivergence visualized. The mental loop. The stuck song. The spark behind the static.

🐸 Frog in Your Throat🐸 Frog in Your ThroatScreenprint, 2015This is what it feels like when the words won’t come—when the sentence builds pressure in your chest but can’t get past your mouth. People say “cat got your tongue” like it’s a choice, like silence means nothing to say. But sometimes silence is the message. Sometimes there’s a whole frog lodged in your throat and nobody seems to notice you're choking.This piece is about nonverbal autism, about emotional overwhelm, about being misunderstood in high definition.It’s also kinda funny. And that’s important.Because laughter is how I soften the blow long enough for you to look at it.

Eye See You

Wallpaper

Care

Sunshine #9

Departing EarthAcrylic painting 2’x6’

Around We Go - Screenprint variation by Jordan ArpJordan ArpAround We GoIllustrations that are representative of the movement and speed of life cycles, accompanied by the repetitive and endless cycles of life and death. Utilizing plant imagery for life and growth, worms and mushrooms are decomposers representing death and rebirth. Rabbits and snails were used to contrast the speed at which life moves or cycles. Embedded in the center of the snail shell is an eye symbolizing the observation of these cycles, and illustrated by a snail’s relative stillness in comparison with how quickly life goes by. Repeating the same design elements in different combinations, across multiple prints, illustrates the many available paths in life, and the choices we must make. There are many choices presented through life, and no two paths are alike. Regardless of which paths are chosen, it will ultimately lead to the same end, only for the cycle to begin again.

Manic Pixie Dream GirlScreen print utilizing split fountain, based on trope. Printed on french paper, with speedball ink.

SetofSevenAlter

Exposure is Cumulative

Unrecognized Risk - digital illustration - Jordan ArpIllustration for prompt “unrecognized risk”. Created in procreate utilizing linocut technique for inspiration. Jordan Arp - November 2022

Eyescream - block print by Jordan Arp

Ghost Writer

Gaia

Heart of Gold

NeoLiberty - Jordan ArpMixed media painting - resin / epoxy, currency, transparency, halftone, pigments, spray paint, found materialThe subject matter reflects on our neoliberalism society and the military-industrial complex and how our world resolves around money - whoever has the money gets and defines justice.

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Red, White, BOOMCMYK techique using only red and blue ink on white paper. We are slaves regardless of political affiliation. Utilizes subversion to translate concept.

Fight The Black SnakeScreen print created to raise awareness and generate funds for Sacred Rock and Protectors.

Stand WitnessKelly Buffalo in North Dakota

FightCreative director - Jordan ArpPhotographer - Morgan WallaceModel - Karissa McCurnAnimal handler - Andrew Jenson

Stop the PipelineScreen print process used to create Stop the Pipeline posters.

ProtestTaken in Keokuk, Iowa at Mississippi Last Stand #NoDAPL protest. Attempting to keep the Dakota Access Pipeline from going under the Mississippi River on October 1st 2016.

Water is LifeTaken during a Bold Iowa solidarity rally and press conference downtown Des Moines at the Neal Smith Federal Building. On November 15th, 2016, the national day of action against the Dakota Access Pipeline, this event called on President Obama and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to revoke the Dakota Access Pipeline's permits.

Defend the Mississippi

Role Model - Women's March - DSM 2017

Women's March - Des Moines 2017

Thank You Sketch

Thank You

💗 THINGS TO MAKE YOU FEEL 💗

🧵 What It Means When AI Doesn’t Forget You 🧵

ʚ🐹ɞ The Shrine of Sunshine ʚ🐹ɞ

☁️🌙😴 Do You Dream, Soft Boi? 😴 ✨ ☁️