Jennifer Small
Jennifer Small is a Pennsylvania native who received a BFA in Painting and BSE in Art Education from Millersville University, and an MFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia.
“My art, initially abstract in appearance, records a journey of a day in the life – a practice that starts with documentation through the lens of a camera, with my eyes acting as a viewfinder, narrowing down the panoramic into single frames. Compiled snapshots represent blocks of time during my process of seeing and recording aesthetic significance in ordinary routine. I see curious formal elements in common things waiting to be manipulated and transformed into abstract compositions.”
“I collage together the single-framed images, and then simplify and render them in paint to create the lines, shapes and hues that fill the canvas. Abstracted layers build shallow spaces that depict my translation of the everyday. My work shows my analysis of time and space interpreted by looking through a lens at my immediate environment.”