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"Jerry Kunkel, Jennifer Jarnot"
When:
- Sundays from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
- Thursdays from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
- Fridays from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
- Saturdays from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Event is ongoing: Until Sunday, September 21, 2008
Where: 6 Gallery, 716 1/2 Mass., Lawrence
Cost: Free
Age limit: All ages
Categories: Art | Ongoing exhibit
Description: Jerry Kunkel is an emeritus professor of Fine Arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder, retiring at the end of 2006. His work is on permanent display at the Denver Museum, and also has been shown at the National Collection of Arts in Washington D.C., San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, Seattle Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, as well as other public and private collections.
Kunkel's realistic oil paintings draw from a wide range of subjects and quite often present a seemingly insignificant moment or series of moments, frozen in time; a depiction of the ordinary, of the everyday object or collections of objects, perhaps those things we take for granted or seldom consider. Something as ordinary as a cherry pie isn't often viewed with an eye toward revelatory self-reflection, but as we begin to elevate it and re-examine it in the context of our daily lives, memories are triggered, and our knowledge of it is expanded. It is at that moment we begin to truly comprehend that the difference between recognition and cognition is more
than just the spelling.
Jennifer Jarnot has a BA in Drawing from the State University of New York at Fredonia and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her work is shown nationally and internationally, including Mexico, the Philippines, Los Angeles, Denver, and New York. In recent years, she taught Drawing and Painting classes at the University of Colorado.
Jarnot paints in response to her surroundings, telling a story that includes travels, conversations, material objects, sights and sounds. The process involves the collection of imagery from various sources, including photographs, comic books, magazines, and clip art websites. Her purpose is to utilize a language using found images in order to create a universal vocabulary. This results in a graphic reproductive quality akin to a visual shorthand, all irrelevant information and details are omitted to trim the appearance down to a basic cut and paste design. The intention is to ask the viewer to be self-reflective, to reconsider feelings or conversations they may have forgotten, places they may have been or would like to go, and material collections that are now lost or allegedly devoid of symbolism.
Event posted Aug. 6, 2008
Last updated Aug. 6, 2008
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