Jennifer Day
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With black oil paint on a gessoed panel, Jennifer Day reveals the drama of water's liquidity without the infinite options of applying local color. Gray scale sensitivity and range is her goal. To achieve this, she works reductively by rubbing the surface and scraping her fingernail methodically through the paint to find the light beneath. Similarly, the artist explores the ephemeral form of clouds, which is another form of water. Both subjects require specific formats, preferably large, that speak to the natural world's untenable immensity. In striking contrast, her smaller works bring her closer to the more intimate gestures of trees and organic life. In all cases, the artist works between two opposites: the geometry of the picture plane versus the challenge of the ephemeral and the impulse of nature to escape the plane altogether.
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Jennifer Day’s sculpture employs natural materials that she finds in her yard and cupboards to create constructions of construction sites in HO scale. In building these miniatures, the artist shows how small worlds are constructed, yet leaves the idea of “finish” up in the air, so to speak. Her themes revolve around the competing ideas of making and deconstructing, engagement and abandonment, the joy of discovery and the realization that maybe not all is well, or fun. Twigs, toothpicks and wood scraps combine in tiny invented worlds. They seduce all ages by virtue of their toy-like scale yet are quizzical and even forbidding. Some examples include a self-powered treehouse, a defunct coal tipple, a ziggurat constructing itself and an underground fort, also “creating” itself.
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Far and Across, 48"x60", oil on panel
Far and Upward, 48"x60", oil on panel
Almost Snow, 48" x 48", oil on panel
Alterpiece-open, 26" x 72" (interior), oil on wood doors
Alterpiece, 26" x 36", oil on wood doors (exterior)
Billingsgate 24" x 48", oil on 2 panels
Congestus, 36" x 48", oil on panel
Conversation, 60" x 24", oil on panel
Dark Wind, 24" x 24", oil on panel
Distant Fog, 14" x 40", oil on panel
Exhale, 48" x 48", oil on panel
Far and Across, 48" x 60", oil on panel
Fluid, 60" x 48", oil on panel
Geof's Storm, 48" x 48", oil on panel
Holding Up, 48" x 48", oil on panel
Light Stream, 36" x 48", oil on panel
Long Horizon, 12" x 96", oil on panel
Long Sea, 8" x 36", oil on panel
Moving Mountains, 30" x 45", oil on panel
Pain's Grey, 60" x 48", oil on panel
Passing Through, 36” x 48”, oil on panel
Procellous, 48" x 144", oil on panel
Red Sea Remembered, 48" x 12", oil on eucalyptus board (In Private Collection)
Spinal Black, 48" x 48", oil on panel
Storied Sea, 36" x 48", oil on panel
Surfacing, 24" x 60", oil on panel
Swell, 30" x 84", oil on panel
Swim in Fog, 60" x 48", oil on panel
Surge, 45" x 45", oil on panel
Veritical Light, 24" x 48", oil on aluminum
Voile, 48" x 48", oil on panel
What Lies Beneath, 36" x 48", oil on panel
Welkin, 120" x 96", charcoal on paper (scroll format)
Whipped, 48" x 72", diptych-oil-on-panels
Wood I, 12" x 12", oil on panel