Jennifer D. Anderson ARTIST | EDUCATOR
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Identity
I am pleased to announce my installation, “Into Eternity” is included in the exhibition Identity at the Roy C. Moore Art Gallery at Gainesville State College. And also included is Heidi Jensen who makes wonderfully strange yet beautiful drawings.
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Three of my prints will be shown as part of this wonderful exhibition curated by Nancy Jo Haselbacher.
Artist At Work Demonstration – J. Paul Getty Museum
Join me Sundays during the month of May for demonstrations on intaglio printmaking at the Getty Museum. 11Am and 1PM. Its a short lecture/demonstration that is always a lot of fun! I show participants the process of printing, as you see in the photo here as well as walk them through how etchings and engravings are [...]
Copy Jam!
Next week I will be in Philadelphia for the SGC International conference. The city will be swarming with printmakers for the conference and there will be even more exhibitions and events this year with the Philagrafika event! I will be sharing some of the events and areas where some of my work can be seen in the [...]
SPACE – First Printmaking Annual
SPACE, the South Pasadena Arts Center presents its first Printmaking Annual. The show is guest curated by Scott Gandell, president of The Society of Illustrators who also created the illustration for the show card shown above. The show celebrates centuries-old and contemporary techniques. Linocuts, etchings and other styles are included in this visual feast of [...]
LA Art Show
If you are attending this weeks LA Art Show, please check out my work and the other peices at the Los Angeles Printmaking Society’s booth. Cathy Weiss curated a few of my prints into this event and I am pleased to participate along with several other outstanding area artists.
Corporealities: Bodies in Question
Conrad Wilde Gallery is pleased to announce Corporealities: Bodies in Question with guest curator, Lois Epperson-Gale. The show opens Saturday, January 2nd with a reception from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. This event serves as the Grand Opening of our new location in the Historic Firestone Warehouse at 439 N. 6th Avenue # 171 in [...]
New Drawings
These are from a series of drawings that I have recently begun. Working with graphite and minimal collage on found ledger papers, I am focusing this series on poetic views of the baseline commonalities of human life: breath, digestion, blood flow and other life mechanics.
Phantasma
In this series of paintings, sculptures and installations, Tarryn Teresa Gallery explores the landscape of the subconscious. Dream-like states, trances, hypnosis and fantasy serve important personal and even societal functions. Americans relentlessly, yet often superficially, espouse scientific explanations. Is our quest to explain everything by scientific (or pseudo-scientific) means an attempt to mitigate and control [...]
Almost Reality II
The Almost Reality exhibition at DVAC will include twelve images from my shades series. This is a recent statement I wrote about this work: I layer imagine upon imagine, skin on top of a portrait, lace below an x-ray, toys with old age, a variety of faces. I layer photographs I have taken, ones I [...]
Upcoming Exhibition
My work will be including in a three person exhibition at Dayton Visual Arts Center opening a week from today. The title Almost Reality poetically embraces the concept of truth, mistruth and the visual image.
Sketchbook Project 3
I participated Art House‘s Sketchbook project earlier this year. All artists were sent a similar beige moleskin sketchbook and asked to respond to the theme of everyone you know. I decided to take the book apart and replace its plain pages with found paper pages that from an old ledger that I first printed on. I then recreated [...]
Pat Merrill Fine Art
Twenty-three miles past downtown LA, but just a short distance off of the 10, Patrick Merrill Fine Art, is within an industrial warehouse area in Covina. Unglamorous but affordable this location seems to fit Patrick, his work and his ideologies about printmaking. Patrick, a native Southern Californian, first dabbled in printmaking in high school. And [...]
Hard Pressed Studio
On the other side of downtown LA, in the loft area of the city often referred to as the Arts District, Hard Pressed Studios presents yet another aspect of printmaking and a striking contrast both in terms of process, style and ownership. Hard Pressed Studios is a relatively new press, founded five years ago by [...]
Aardvark Press
Although Aardvark Letterpress and Fine Art Editions is just twelve miles inland from Santa Monica, the journey can easily take over an hour to complete. The press is located just a few blocks away from Mc Arthur Park. An area of Los Angeles where dualities often collided, as gang members and police officers alike have [...]
Angeles Press
Also on the west side of the city, Angeles Press is located in a row of shops in an area of Santa Monica that was just beginning to boom before the recent economic down turn. The glass windows of each store and business along Ocean Park Boulevard allow passers-by a glimpse inside and at number [...]
Josephine Press
Located a little past Cloverfield on the Santa Monica Boulevard, Josephine Press is unassumingly wedged between a BMW dealership and an acupuncture office. A transplant from the East, who got his MFA at Kent State University, John Greco established the press in 1984 out of a desire to help other artists and himself, as according [...]
Printmaking in Los Angeles – Printed Strata – The lesser know and unknown
Los Angeles stretches across a vast geographic, demographic and cultural expanse resulting in a city without one nucleus or Mecca. Rather, the multiple points of reference of the Los Angeles are reflected in how it is a decentralized city with a phlera of nuclei, each a hub of energy, excitement and most often art. Arguably [...]
2009!
Wow, its 2009! Change and hope, those are the buzz words right. So with that in mind, I thought I would begin my presence on here for this year with an image of what I have been working on and with a quote. “Dum spiro, spero”, that’s Latin for while I breathe, I hope. Fairly profound, no?
Wondercommon
I had the wonderful opportunity to see Keith Puccinelli discuss his work at Otis College of Art and Design this Saturday. There are times when you see a body of work and make an assumption about the artist and this was definitely the case for me. The eccentric nature and dark humor of the exhibition [...]
Contemporary Art for Change
One of my smaller pieces will be in this silent auction for a great cause tomorrow in Culver City, Contemporary Art for Change! I got to see a preview of the exhibition today and it looks great. It also sounds like an fun event for all.
Working with found paper
Recently I have included found paper in my work. Often pages from old journals, ledgers and so on. The attraction is two fold for me, as it seems a wonderfully eco-conscious thing to create art from left-behind papers that would most likely be turned in refuse and it also seems a way to capture a [...]
New print
Here’s a new little print that I have been working on. Like the work that I will be showing later this fall at JK Gallery this piece is on found paper and is a combination of lithographic and inkjet print processes. The work is also about a combinations: a mixture of different aspects of the [...]
A Really Big Announcement
Well the good news of the day is that my work will be shown at JK Gallery in Culver City! The gallery is part of the gallery strip along La Cienega, so its easy to find and there’s lots of other things to see nearby. The show opens on November 1 with a reception that [...]