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JENNIFER MUSKOPF |
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| EDUCATION |
| 1993 |
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2008 |
Cats and Birds, Rose and Radish, San Francisco, CA |
| 2007 |
Mamas and Babes, ReForm School, Los Angeles, CA
Even-toed Ungulates, Cog and Pearl, Brooklyn, NY
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| 2006 |
Points of Contact: How We Relate in an Unknown World, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC |
| 2005 |
Animal, Triton Gallery, Kobe, Japan |
| 2004 |
12 Bajan Houses, Upton Lodge, Barbados, WI |
| 1999 |
Recent Paintings, Taylor Gallery, Meriden, NH |
| 1996 |
Recent Work, Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, VT |
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2009 |
Soft Architecture, KK Projects, New Orleans, LA |
| 2008 |
The Thread as the Line: Contemporary Sewn Art, Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, VA |
| 2007 |
Borderland, 3rd Rail Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Wurstminster Dog Show, Wurst Gallery, Portland, OR
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| 2006 |
Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
Converter, Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Pleased to Meet You, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC
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| 2005 |
Two For the See Saw, Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC
Art Cologne, New Contemporaries, Köln, Germany
Pinewood Derby Invitational, Architectural Artifacts, Chicago, IL
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| 2004 |
Coloring Book, Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC |
| 2003 |
Weird Feelings, Millicent Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1999 |
Artist [book], University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Vienna Austrotel Contemporary Art Fair, Viennart Hotel, Vienna, Austria
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| TEACHING |
| 1999-2005 |
Teaching Artist, Lincoln Center Institute, New York, NY |
| 2001-2005 |
Teaching Artist, Curriculum Arts Project, Symphony Space, New York, NY |
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| RESIDENCY |
| 1993-1994 |
Staff Artist, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT |
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| PUBLICATIONS/SELECTED PRESS |
| 2008 |
selvedge, issue #23 May/June 2008, page 15
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| 2008 |
Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean,
by Ian Whitmarsh, cover art, Cornell University Press (available here on Amazon)
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| 2006 |
"Best Bets", Independent Weekly, June 14, 2006 |
| 2005 |
Billet Free Paper n. 21 (Animal), Japan |
| 2004 |
Coloring Book, Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC |
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Statement
My paintings and soft sculptures are quiet, detailed scenes depicting the strangeness of ordinary objects around us: the structures we build, the plants we care for and those that grow freely, animals, clouds, the sea, the distance between things. The way our world appears seems to reflect what it feels like to be in it, and by looking closely we may, like the palm reader, see what is hidden from us. I use these objects to describe our longing, hope, sadness, friendship, fear, and desire. Houses become portraits with all of the personality one might see in a face described through its details. Plants stand sentinel. Clouds communicate with their grounded shadows. Animals escape our boundaries. By juxtaposing these elements with icons and personal imagery, I want to weave a story of secret truths the way myths make known to us the unknowable. They are places of memory, the mundane and the epic puzzled together to draw attention to what is around us and to question what it may mean.
I am currently working on a series of soft sculptures of deep sea fish. The deep sea has long been a place of mystery and folklore. Since it is now possible to explore the darkness of the ocean floor through video and photographic images I want to represent the creatures that really exist there. I am making life-sized stuffed animal versions of these "monsters" in an attempt to know them. To have them share our space. To know how big they are next to me. To imagine what it is like in their space. To make it possible to look closely at what is in our world but still beyond our understanding.
Jennifer Muskopf is currently living and working in Boston, MA. Since marrying her anthropologist husband in 2003 she has lived in Washington, DC, Barbados, WI, Brooklyn, NY and Carrboro, NC. She makes paintings and soft sculptures and is a mother.
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