ARTIST STATEMENT
My acrylic and collage paintings incorporate original hand-painted and monoprinted papers. My visual arts work focuses on the ephemeral beauty of our world and our need to do our best to respect and preserve it. From the rain-soaked days of my childhood in the Pacific Northwest through the ever-evolving arc of my artistic career, I have always built imaginary worlds that shape and color my experience. Plucking pieces from my surroundings, I rearrange life’s building blocks to construct new, distinctive realities. These imaginary worlds, in turn, become lenses onto our lived reality: fictional forums to consider concrete environmental, economic, and social issues.
My acrylic and collage paintings incorporate original hand-painted and monoprinted papers. My visual arts work focuses on the ephemeral beauty of our world and our need to do our best to respect and preserve it. From the rain-soaked days of my childhood in the Pacific Northwest through the ever-evolving arc of my artistic career, I have always built imaginary worlds that shape and color my experience. Plucking pieces from my surroundings, I rearrange life’s building blocks to construct new, distinctive realities. These imaginary worlds, in turn, become lenses onto our lived reality: fictional forums to consider concrete environmental, economic, and social issues.
BIO
Jenny Blazing was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and is now based in Durham, North Carolina. She graduated from University of California, Davis with degrees in Environmental Design & Economics and subsequently earned a Ph.D. from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work focuses on the ephemeral beauty of our world and our need to respect and preserve it. In addition to her painting practice, she shares a collaborative practice, WALSH/BLAZING, with professional artist Carin Walsh that includes painting, video, installation, photography, commercial commissions, and large-scale projection. Carin Walsh and Jenny Blazing use visual art to reframe environmental issues and generate conversations about measures to solve them. They bridge art and science by employing a research-based approach to environmental messaging through visual art. They have partnered with scientists and communication experts to engage the public in discussions around our current environmental trajectory and the unnecessary politicizing of the climate crisis.
www.walsh-blazing.com, @walshblazing
Click on the following link to view a peer-reviewed journal article by Professor Avi Brisman:
Representing the "Invisible Crime" of Climate Change in an Age of Post-Truth