Artistic Work Sample
A webpage with a selection of photographic still images and short video excerpts from recent visual and performance art projects with a correlation to the COLA-IMAP applicaiton.
A site-specific installation for the exhibition Days of Reverie at Sturt Haaga Gallery in Descanso Gardens. The work features new and original work created during a 10-month process of investigation with the outdoor botanical and indoor gallery setting. All of the dried/fallen plant materials were gathered and selected from Descanso Gardens, and then prepared with various metallic leaf foils in patterns inspired by the beautiful and unique features of each leaf variety. A sample of how my installation work could also serve as performance space.
ECSTASY FOR EVERYONE! is a full-length solo show celebrating the poetic works and visionary films of James Broughton and a project I was planning to tour in 2020, until circumstances had all of us pivot.
"Temptations in Fairyland" - A solo performance art commission for the Lancaster Museum of Art & History based on the artist Leonard Greco’s solo exhibition “Fairyland” in MOAH:CEDAR on March 16, 2019. A direct correlation and ancestor to the storytelling and performance art that Unreliable Narrator would be.
Inspiration is derived from French novelist Gustave Flaubert’s “The Temptation of St. Anthony”, which depicts the desert hermit’s confrontation one evening with a series of lavish and lustful hallucinatory temptations. Our contemporary world contains equally alluring distractions that regularly reach out to us in powerfully appealing ways. Jenn puts the story into context through the realm of performance art’s wild history, its pantheon of unusual characters, and coming to terms with being a performance artist himself.
What starts out as a kind of lecture/TED Talk about the relationship between Greco's work and the novel, quickly devolves into a madcap performance about the deliriousness of the history of performance art in general.
"Twinkle: Traveler Beneath the Stars"
A surprising tale that navigates complex the concepts of immigration, genocide, homelessness, religion, politics, fame, and fortune.
Using stars as the central theme, I link the celestial objects to the cultural obsession with celebrity, weaving a story that reminds people that they possess the ability to be their gods and saviors, and exposing the hypocrisy in which religion, nationalism, and capitalism were and are still used as excuses for various atrocities and crimes against humanity throughout history.
