Jennifer Madeley Dunn

Artist's Statement

The creation and exploration of art has been a life long love -- the process of painting colors on canvas, drawing on paper, and cutting on wood and printing. When I look at my work I remember my making of it.

The human body provides inspiration for most of my work. It is beautiful. But, it is also grotesque -- blood, guts, fluids, etc. It’s inner-workings -- giving us nothing-less than life -- are extraordinary, but it’s failure creates great pain and fear. There is also a physical history as individuals -- with scars, aches, appearances, movement. A vessel for our selves. The landscape also influences – the innumerable colors and their juxtaposition. I love to study perspective.

The craft renders unuttered meditation and dictation of feelings, stories, and ideas. Words require a beginning and end -- structure and logic. Art remains open to complexity, mystery and contradictions.