I want to make relevant and challenging work that speaks to the paradoxes of joy and suffering we all experience. I make work that references landscape, leveraging several media. My work is informed by both the physical landscape we live in and the psychological landscape of relationships. In addition to using landscape for its metaphorical possibly, I employ images one associates with construction projects (flags, festoons, fences, tape) as a metaphor for personal or social conditions.
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i really relate to the new drawings in progress. are they derived from the installation at the renaissance center last year? … i like the formations and the tensions they create with the addition of the line. very interesting!
Thanks for sharing your studio space Jodi! I’ve enjoyed taking a look at what goes on behind the curtain. I have to second Kariann by agreeing that those iceberg looking shapes are really interesting. Would love to know more about them.
I love the iceberg looking shapes with ties! Very interesting. It’s always fun to see how other studios look. Thanks for sharing.
The stark pieces you mention are black and white, in function (actually dark violet/gray and white) in gouache. The building is still a church in downtown Nashville, they rent former office spaces as studios.
Very nice mysterious black-and-white works; are they gouache, watercolor? I also like the large orange net piece. And your building looks interesting—is it a former church?