Jenny Day Paintings
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Jenny Day is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from The University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz. Her exhibition record most recently includes the Phoenix Art Museum, Blue Star Contemporary, in San Antonio, Texas, Arte Laguna Prize - Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, and Elmhurst History Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Day's work has been supported by an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2018, Contemporary Forum Artist Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum in 2017, a Barron Purchase Award in 2016 and through participation at the Ucross Foundation, the Jentel Foundation, Playa Foundation For The Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Art Center and Armory Art Center. Jenny Day is an exhibiting artist at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.
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Artist: Jenny Day
Everything Sinks Eventually
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fragmented space, examining human demand and the effects of environmental d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Wind Brought the Night
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fragmented space, examining human demand and the effects of environmental d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Designated Lurking Area
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fragmented space, examining human demand and the effects of environmental d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Nearly Somewhere 016
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fragmented space, examining human demand and the effects of environmental d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Wax, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Gold Cat
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Lone Star, True But Whatever
There was I time when I ached for the world. Before cell phones, before social media, I felt the urgency of environmental damage, of social injustice.
Nothing seems to have gotten better. I'm not numb to it, but in some way I've become flip, a resigned humor like a layer of scar tissue between my concerns and the abrasion all around.
Still, I was surprised how playful these paintings became.
Disasters intertwine: Urns, much like the one that held my twin sister's ashes, a familial disaster, come to the forefront, variations of childhood memory. Images from photos I took in Port Aransas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Final Elevation
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fragmented space, examining human demand and the effects of environmental d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic, Pen, Color Pencil
Bay View
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Lone Star, True But Whatever
There was I time when I ached for the world. Before cell phones, before social media, I felt the urgency of environmental damage, of social injustice.
Nothing seems to have gotten better. I'm not numb to it, but in some way I've become flip, a resigned humor like a layer of scar tissue between my concerns and the abrasion all around.
Still, I was surprised how playful these paintings became.
Disasters intertwine: Urns, much like the one that held my twin sister's ashes, a familial disaster, come to the forefront, variations of childhood memory. Images from photos I took in Port Aransas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Paint, Glitter, Acrylic, Color Pencil
End
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Lone Star, True But Whatever
There was I time when I ached for the world. Before cell phones, before social media, I felt the urgency of environmental damage, of social injustice.
Nothing seems to have gotten better. I'm not numb to it, but in some way I've become flip, a resigned humor like a layer of scar tissue between my concerns and the abrasion all around.
Still, I was surprised how playful these paintings became.
Disasters intertwine: Urns, much like the one that held my twin sister's ashes, a familial disaster, come to the forefront, variations of childhood memory. Images from photos I took in Port Aransas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Dwellings
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Tucson, AZ / Santa Fe, NM ::: b. 1981]
BIO
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter who divides her time between Tucson, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Nearly Somewhere 001
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fragmented space, examining human demand and the effects of environmental d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Canvas, Ink, Spray Paint
Lost without you
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the U...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Color Pencil
"The Wild West and a lurking slip" -- Painting on Canvas, by Jenny Day
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the U...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Chaos and its devolution
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: acrylic, colored pencil, paint pen, Flashe, ink on canvas
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz. Her exhibition record most recently includes the Phoenix Art Museum, Blue Star Art Museum, in San Antonio, TX, Arte Laguna in Venice, Italy, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, and Elmhurst Museum in Chicago, IL. Day's work has been supported by an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant in 2018, Contemporary Forum Artist Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum in 2017, a Barron Purchase Award in 2016 and through participation at the Ucross Foundation, the Jentel Foundation, Playa Foundation For The Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Art Center, and the Armory Art Center. Jenny Day represented at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.
The artist says of her work...
I walked in the Mohave desert. Listened to the bees as they hummed and sucked from yellow creosote flowers. I watched the desert blur by as I drove eighty-miles per hour on I-40. I couldn’t hear the bees. The Mohave backdropped a science-fiction film I watched from my couch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Ink, Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Small Fires
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: acrylic, colored pencil, paint pen, Flashe, ink on canvas
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the Univer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Ink, Canvas, Color Pencil
Suspicious Times / Pre-Collapse
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: acrylic, colored pencil, paint pen, Flashe, spray paint on canvas
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jenny Day Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
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