lost 2008

Jennifer Howison
Gestures 10: Illustrations of Catastrophe and Remote Times, January 18 – June 15, 2008
Materials
gouache, acrylic paint, wood, bowling pins

Touching on themes of folk narrative and fantasy with a haunting deliberately naive aesthetic Jennifer Howison 8217 s installation depicts a three-dimensional landscape of...

Description

Touching on themes of folk narrative and fantasy with a haunting, deliberately naive aesthetic, Jennifer Howison’s installation depicts a three-dimensional landscape of a minute female doll lost in a forest of bowling pins. Elements such as cracks and chips in the veneer of the objects as well as well as a large, painted bowling pin looking down, God-like, from the ceiling imbue dark, macabre undertones to this fable. On the corner wall behind the three-dimensional landscape, a Magritte-like cloudscape in the abstracted form of a bowling pin emerges hauntingly from the walls.

 

Curated by Heather Pesanti

About the Artist

With influences ranging from native folk paintings to the colorful and bold symbols of street art, Jennifer’s style is a straightforward, graphic technique using gouache and acrylic that shows an apparently playful world infused with subtle personalities and unexpected dialogues.