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"Abstracts of Nature"
Jennifer Tenace
Curated by: Liza Mitchell
Contact :
Liza Mitchell 310-489-8998
liza4lov@aol.com
Dates: July 5th - Aug 7th 2009
Artist reception: Sat., July 11, 2009 6-9 PM
Location: 346 E. 3rd Street,
Phantom Galleries LA invites you to view the natural abstracts of painter Jennifer Tenace. The bright colors of these large canvases evoke summer and lily ponds, breezes and the smell of flowers. The beauty of nature will surround you.
Media contact: Liza Mitchell 310-489-8998 liza4lov@aol.com
Artist Statement:
My work originates from a love and experience of nature. As I began painting with a desire to mimic certain physical characteristics of natural environments, I realized that, during the process of painting, I was actually feeling an experience of nature. Rather than painting something to appear like nature, I now seek to embody the living act of nature, with no separations between my self, my work and nature.
Because of this experience of nature within the process of painting, I associate my work with landscape painting , even though my recent works are abstract in appearance. I see how my actions through painting are an outlet for me to let go and play in my own created landscape. My art is more about the process of painting rather than a painting reaching a stage that is final, much as a landscape in nature is always alive, always undergoing a process of change – a building up of circumstances, events, influences and memories. In many ways, such landscapes reflect my struggles in life…to slow down, to put things together in a way that is direct and to live in the present moment. I strive to pu t it all down on the panel, allowing the painting to always be in the act of creation, as there is always a constant adding and taking away from the panel.
Each work becomes a model of a lifestyle for me, teaching me to pay attention to what is before me in the present and how to react based on instinct and feeling.
As nature is always in the present moment, always in the act of, we are also acting upon our own moments and thus also always in creation.
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Long time no post!
We did a very last minute Halloween haunt yesterday, which admittedly did not get electricity running into it until after the children vanished. Oops! Still, it's gorgeous, and I'm very pleased.
New dolls are on the horizon, and new photography opportunities! While I realize Flickr is kind of dying, I'll still be using it for another year at least, I think. Our new place has better photo opportunities and I finally have room for my photography equipment, so get ready!
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Yappy Hour Popup dog park at Elm Street urban park in Bethesda, MD on June 28th. Photographs by Tony Ventouris Photography.
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This is how I lit the quickie shot shown in the adjacent frame. It was a very quick shot and by no means a studio set-up. The final image is rather soft, but that may be due to me hand-holding with ONE HAND as I used the same hand to press the shutter release. It may be due to the default High ISO noise reduction, which I didn't touch.
The first shot was lit by one 60 watt bulb, about 7-8 feet to the right of the flowers and it was just not good enough to think about using, so I popped up the built-in flash. Naturally, there was a shadow on the wall, which is about 4 feet behind the flowers. I picked up a post card and held it as shown so that the white side of the card would deflect the light up towards the ceiling. Using ISO 500 means that the light effectively filled the room. (The setting is sensitive enough to detect light everywhere.) This bathed the flowers in light and the shot was acceptable for posting on Facebook.
I can see how this might bail me out of some unforeseen situations in the future.
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