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Jenny Roberts
Artist Information
Born: Detroit, MI
Currently Resides: Chicago, IL
Contact Information:
jenrobe (at) earthlink (dot) net
Medium(s) Worked in:
Painting
Sculpture
Photography
Performance
Conceptual
Mixed-media
Drawing
Installation
Interdisciplinary
Artist CV:
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Available for Commission: Yes
HPAC Exhibitions
2006, Takeover
Artist Statement
The source of my creative energy is perverse play in response to everyday life. My work revolves around a loose core of common concerns. It is philosophically (rather than stylistically or formally) unified. My only visions are peripheral. I want to wake up. I want to make the familiar strange and the random intentional. I want to be absurd, awkward and unrepentent. I’m obsessed with caprice, desire, camouflage, illusion, chance, what is obvious, what is passed over, what is thrown away.
My work takes many forms: drawing, painting, collage, photography, installation, sound. I often manipulate found images, materials, or text. I often create environments or perform actions in public spaces to unravel or complicate the connections between public and private, art and life.
I often create environments or perform actions in public spaces to unravel or complicate the connections between public and private, art and life.
Artist Bio
Jenny Roberts is a visual artist with roots in writing (poetry). Born in Michigan, she currently lives in Chicago. As an undergraduate she was an English/Education major. After teaching English in Tokyo for two years, she settled in Chicago. She then worked as an editor for several years, and in 1999 self-published a book of poetry.
In 2003 Jenny Roberts received an MFA from the University of Chicago. Roberts co-taught a seminar on conceptual art for adults at the Newberry Library in Chicago in 2005 and has presented her work as a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute and Columbia College in Chicago as well as at a conference on camouflage at the University of Northern Iowa. She has had shows at LIPA Gallery, Lobby Gallery, the Hyde Park Art Center and other venues around Chicago.