" The Monkey's Uncle " by Jennifer Amadeo-Holl |
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| Friday, 21 April 2006 17:41 |
 Boston, MA - The judi rotenberg gallery presents Jennifer Amadeo-Holl who has been a resident of Boston’s Fort Point artist community for 11 years. Living and working in the Artist Building on Summer Street, Amadeo-Holl is one of the remaining artists in Fort Point. Amidst the surrounding development in this old artist haven, Amadeo-Holl continues to paint profusely in her studio. All of the works in her exhibition were painted in her Fort Point studio predominantly over the past year. Aya Baya Bazaar is an exhibition of paintings that demonstrate Amadeo-Holl’s complex visual vocabulary, entrancing the viewer in the everyday and the fantastical. Jennifer received her BA in Visual & Environmental Studies from Harvard University. From there she went on to study at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Swedish Royal Academy of Art. Exhibit May 4 - June 3, 2006. In her artist statement below, Amadeo-Holl reveals her expressive process. "I describe my paintings as abstracted narratives. They explore the complementarily of abstraction and representation, and the relationship between individuals, the animate and inanimate. The images are often rich in detail and associational imagery - a plethora of ‘facts’ are provided, yet the whole is still insufficiently factual to be caged in a static idea.
 Geometric forms combine with organic, curious, and accidental shapes to make inferences to recognizable forms, while rendered objects fuse, morph or sit juxtaposed with abstract shapes. Compositional density and scale can range from a stimulating emptiness to a consonant surfeit, as befits each painting's needs. My palette has evolved over time, with unusual, intense, or dissonant colors deployed as often as not to achieve balance through imbalance. I rarely use color symbolically but I do use it as a constructive medium. I am drawn by the mystery of why the inanimate, including painting itself, should so often and so urgently feel sensate, though in a manner unique to itself. I see painting as a physical and philosophical practice, one which examines the nature of reality, the relationship between mind and matter, and the interplay of fact and value. I am not painting towards something more than or truer than the real. I find the world simultaneously mundane and fantastical, and therefore see the incorporation or creation of “imaginary” imagery as native to reality, that is, the ordinary is the imaginary. My hope is to make formidable but tender, paradoxically harmonic paintings, that may be inexplicable and yet speak." Visit the judi rotenberg gallery at : www.judirotenberg.comClick on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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