Artist Jennifer Balkan solo show : “Paintings from Pan-demon-ium”

Title: “Paintings from Pan-demon-ium” "I began this body of work fueled by and in the throes of a world stricken by a biological pandemic and a social one. I responded to this by painting and drawing. I’ve juxtaposed painterly voluminous figures and faces of real humanity with bits of narrative, flat two-dimensional and illustrative lines of comic, graphic contours that provide context. Some figures exist within the environs of nature and natural events some cataclysmic, some threatening, and some predatory, yet rendered in carnivalesque color leaving the viewer with feelings of comfort and hope. My pen drawings include some of these figures more quietly rendered with marks that have been likened to birds’ nests. I’ve adorned my subjects with halos, elevating and illuminating them. Though this feature has historically been reserved for the holy, I argue that so many become “enlightened” through life’s experiences. Through these seemingly disparate methods of visual description plus a variance of brushwork, line and a keen sense of color choice, I hope to present an emotionally layered dialogue within each painting and drawing."

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