Jennifer Davis

Minneapolis, MN

Artists bio available upon request

Making art is an obsession for me. I enjoy painting everyday and get a deep satisfaction from sharing my work with other people. For me, painting is a vehicle for expressing my most personal thoughts and ideas. I am trying to communicate things that are often unspoken and private but commonly human.

My mode of working is very spontaneous and intuitive. I build up layers of paint, sand them down, and then build them up some more. I like to create “ghost images” by allowing under-layers of line and paint to peek through to the image on the surface. This gives the picture a sense of history, time, and change. The narrative quality of each painting becomes apparent through drawing, painting and adding bits of found-image collage. Everyday my invented language of symbols grows, repeats, and changes.