Jennifer D. Anderson ARTIST | EDUCATOR
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 [...]
Vitals
“I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.” Eugene Delacroix This suite of etching brings the organs of the body to the forefront and focuses on our corporeal nature. Painstakingly created through the process of etching with delicate line work composing each passage of value, these plates where then hand [...]
Into Eternity
“Because as the flower – Beautiful, but transient. He shall pass away – Into eternity.” John Wesley’s Notes on the Bible, James 1:10 This recent and on-going project, replaces the typical flat colors of the repeated wallpaper motif with that of images of human skin. Hung away from the wall, these little jewels glow when [...]
Corporeal Tracery
Presenting the body as nothing but light and shadow and as color adhered to glass; this work focuses on basic human identity, as we are our physical beings. The body is the focus. A body filled with internal organs and processes, with strengths, weaknesses, limitations, and the potential for rampant ugliness as well as profound [...]
Shades
As human beings, I believe our identity is composed of a layering of stories. Those we retell about ourselves, those we overtime ascribe importance and value to, as well as those stories which intentionally or not fade away. This series of work is about this layering of stories and meaning, as well as the information [...]
Syncope
This work builds upon the ideas and format used for Inside of Me. In this case the title, syncope which is the technical term for fainting, reflects how subtle and delicate the work is. Here the repeated lace imagery gently dances across the wall, passing in and out of existence.
Some May Go
My work has long dealt with the vulnerability of the human body and spirit, the resonance of morality and how both affect our daily lives. I have found paper to be the perfect artistic vehicle for these issues. Unimportant daily events, notes and to-do lists, as well as important documents, such as birth, wedding, and [...]
Student Work | Design
When I teach two-dimensional design, I focus on teaching visual literacy. Students learn the elements and principles of design through creation, as well as the analysis, interpretation and critique of a wide variety of images from contemporary advertisements to masterpieces of art history. Students then apply this to assignments that ask them to generate creative [...]
Inside Of Me
Shadows, thin light lines, forms that appear and disappear like ghosts, and delicate layering of images, are the ways I represent the human condition and the human form, reflecting the precarious and vulnerable nature of the individual, easily injured and very mortal. In the piece “Inside of Me” elements of the interior of the human [...]
Substantial Material
I am interested in how science is and has been used to define human nature, health, and disease. My research has included antiquated now debunked areas of scientific thought, such as phrenology and the humours, as well as recent discoveries on neuroscience. Since the mode and methods of science thought to bean accurate understanding of [...]