Juniper James: Unattended Baggage
@ Dragonfly Gallery & Creative Spaces
2436 W Madison St, Chicago IL 60612
Opening Saturday, November 9th, at 6PM
On view through Saturday, November 30th
Artist Statement
My artwork is a process of reclamation of my own experiences and the lens through which I filter the world. Photoshop and the internet allow for new combinations of photo, drawing, color, light and space that previously were not possible. I am pushing the idea of the rectangle into architectural space, working past the 2D plane into “rooms,” and using the canvas as a window rather than a screen. Instead of having the viewer acknowledge the distance and separation between themselves, the painting and its content, I am taking advantage of the large scale to pull the viewer into the space and allow them to become part of the scene. The audience is not a witness but an unwilling participant, reinforcing my own experience of trauma and its effects on the body and mind. Militarization
and warnings against authoritarian structure are prominent themes.
Biography
Juniper James is an oil painter and collage artist based in Chicago, IL.
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