Open Studio Event!

Jennifer Davis and Amy Rice Open Studio Event
ONE DAY ONLY- Saturday, April 9th, 2011, 12-5pm
Featuring prints, posters, paintings, drawings, greeting cards...

My friend, Amy Rice, has generously offered to share the walls of her beautiful studio with me for the California Building's monthly "2nd Saturdays" open studio crawl event.

Tons of art!
Come and visit!

California Building - studio 602
2205 California Street NE
Minneapolis, MN

Inside Out: The Self Portrait Show

^ yup. that's me.

"It is often said that every work of art is a self-portrait, and to some degree this is certainly true. However, most art - in content, theme or intention is not about the self. Artists explore myriad facets of the universe, the natural, the social, and the abstract. The Self-portrait is the most personal form of artistic expression. Making the self more public is a tingly experience. There is thrill and trepidation. It is an acutely focused, conscious choice about revealing and concealing elements of the self."

Opening Reception: This Sat March 12, 6pm-9pm
Hennes Art Company
Show runs through April 30, 2011

* A review of the show at MplsArt.com
* Read more about the show in City Pages and South of Canada.

t-shirts

I designed a t-shirt for Minneapolis band Tapes 'n Tapes!
It is available now on their website!

Wild Things @ View Art Gallery, Canada

"Wild Things"
New works by Dave Barnes and Jennifer Davis
at View Art Gallery
Victoria, BC, Canada

- gentle giant, acrylic/graphite/charcoal, 12x16" (SOLD)

March 18 - April 16, 2011
Opening reception:
Friday, March 18, 6-9pm
* Facebook Event page here.
* Please visit the gallery website to see all of the works from the show!

I made a Facebook page for my art stuffs.

Join me?
Jennifer Davis Art on Facebook.

Do you have an art page on FB?
I know I'll LIKE it! ;0)

Self Portraits

Eeeeeek!
I have been painting self portraits for an upcoming group show in Mpls.
"Inside Out: The Self Portrait Show
26 artists make themselves the object of their expression."

I have never really done this before. It is quite scary!

On a kind-of-related note:
This post over at ArtHound
How do you feel about portraits of strangers?

Help Me Decide?

UPDATE:
Sebastian Foster, online purveyor of totally rad paintings and prints, is going to produce all three of these prints for me!
"Remember" came out on top so they are printing a larger edition of that print. I will make a new post when the prints are released.
Thank you all so much for your comments and emails. You are the bests! xoxoxo


Will you help me decide which print to produce?

#1 Navigator, #2 Remember, & #3 Bike Ride
(click to enlarge)

I am indecisive and would really appreciate any input!
Rank them in a comment (below) or let me know what you think via email? jenniferdavisart@gmail.com
Pretty please and Thank you! ;0) xo-jd

Enormous Tiny Art Show 9

fine balance, 6x8", acrylic/charcoal/graphite(SOLD)

I made six little paintings for the 9th installment of
Enormous Tiny Artshow at Nahcotta in Portsmouth, NH.

sightseer, 6x8", acrylic/charcoal/graphite


new day, 6x8", acrylic/charcoal/graphite


celebration, 6x8", acrylic/charcoal/graphite(SOLD)


together, 6x8", acrylic/charcoal/graphite(SOLD)



fancy trick, 6x8", acrylic/charcoal/graphite




framed:

Get Lucky 2011

- continue, 9x12", acrylic/graphite/charcoal on panel

I made this painting to benefit the Soo Visual Arts Center.
It will be in the silent auction at their annual gala fundraiser,
"Get Lucky", on Sat Jan 29, 2011.

"11 in 2011" at Nahcotta

New show at Nahcotta in Portsmouth, NH:
"Nahcotta’s first show of the new year celebrates varied, outstanding work from eleven artists in the gallery’s diverse stable, bringing together photography with mixed media paintings, collage, acrylic on paper and illustrative work. Entitled 11 in ’11, this group show is on view from January 6 until January 30."

- mindful, acrylic/graphite/charcoal, 12x16"

- bike ride, acrylic/graphite, 12x16"

Tattoo!

Someone got a tattoo based on my painting, "Upsidedown"!
What an honor!

Fox Tax Gallery

* UPDATE: This event is rescheduled because of the BLIZZARD! New date: Fri Dec 17th! *
- fancy 12x16", acrylic/graphite/charcoal (SOLD) and
- dance, 12x16", acrylic/graphite/charcoal (SOLD)


I have two new paintings in the current show at Fox Tax Gallery:
"These are a Few of Our Favorite Things"
On View: December 3 – Jan 7th
Opening Reception: Saturday December 11, 6-10 pm

Many of the artists in the show have donated small works of art that will be gift wrapped and sold (sight unseen!) for $100 each. Proceeds from these gifts will go to the charity of my choice-
SpringBoard for the Arts Emergency Fund for Artists.

You can read more about the show in City Pages and at the Dressing Room blog.

Custom Vinyl Toy

(Acrylic/graphite on blank white Ducobi First Edition Vinyl RB Series.)

Aqua Art Miami

My paintings are on their way to Miami for the Aqua Art Miami fair
with Walker Contemporary Gallery.
Dec 2- 5, 2010. #222 Aqua 10

Photos

- Terrence Payne, Jennifer Davis (me!), Joe Sinness, Erika Olson Gross

- in the gallery

Photos by Lacey Criswell, taken after our artist talk last night at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Thank you to all who attended!

Check out our blog about the show here: http://FlourishMAEP.blogspot.com/

Local Artist Interviews

I did an interview with a fabulous new website that posts interview profiles with local (Minneapolis, MN, USA) artists. I am familiar with many of the artists they have profiled so far but it has been fun reading their answers to these questions and "hearing" their voices.

You can read my interview here- on "Local Artist Interviews".

I am also enjoying a similar theme over at the CityPages "Dressing Room" blog called "100 Creatives".

"my love for you is a stampede of horses"

"my love for you is a stampede of horses"
is one of my go-to blogs for finding interesting artists and inspiration.
I was delighted to find my new paintings featured there this morning.

"I love the twisted and hybrid beings that live in Jennifer Davis' textiled world."

Thank you, myL4U!

Pretty (tough) in Pink

Hooray! Our show at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts got a (good) review in today's Minneapolis Star Tribune!

Pretty (tough) in Pink

"...What all four have in common is meticulous drawing styles and abundant illustrational talent. Working with colored pencil, oil pastel, watercolor and other drawing media, they employ graphic devices (ornamental patterns, flattened imagery, linear designs, lots of white space) to narrative effect. Their drawings read like "pictures," in that they hint at stories, relationships or emotional states..."

Full text here.

View the artwork from the show here.

View Art gallery- CANADA

I have four paintings in the holiday salon exhibition at View Art Gallery in Victoria, BC, Canada. Show runs Nov.5-Dec. 31st, 2010

relics, 13x15.5", acrylic/graphite on panel, $450

fruit, 12x16", acrylic/graphite on panel, (SOLD)

by the way, 10x15", acrylic/graphite on panel, $400

winter, 12x16", acrylic/graphite on panel, $450

Allow me to elaborate?

City Pages "Dressing Room" blog has a neato new feature called
100 Creatives

You can read their profile about me/my art here:
Jennifer Davis : 100 Creatives

I wanted to share a little bit more about this part:
"Name three things that inspired and/or motivated you as a budding creative type:
1. Richard Scary's Best Story Book Ever and my childhood toys. (I recently rediscovered the book and boxes full of my old toys/drawings. Everything I do makes more sense to me now)..."

I had no conscious recollection of these books until I rediscovered my childhood toys.



Could this be the root of my inexplicable obsession with (upsidedown?!?!) wind instruments over the years?!?!



I was pretty surprised to see how many parallels i found between these books and my paintings.







Here is my special TeddyBear- handmade and handed down through my mother's GINORMOUS family: