“Water On Paper 2″, pencil and charcoal on paper, 5″ x 5”, 2014
Ceres Gallery is having a group show. In June. The exact date of the reception is June 26, 6-8 PM. It is a Thursday. The gallery is located in Chelsea, an established gallery section of New York. 547 West 27th Street. New York, NY 10001. Phone: 212 947 6100. The second floor. You can take the stairs, if you prefer.
I did the piece for this group show and am pleased with it. It is based on a painting I did a few years back. The painting had collage in it and the abstraction was based on the spaces in between trees. In the painting, I chose the pieces from magazines, not for their subject matter, but for their potential for volume and how they related to the paint.
The charcoal translation is interesting (bad word, interesting) to me, since the face from the painting comes through as significant here, where in the very large painting, it was just a shape.
I hope some of you can attend my reception! It would be so nice to see you!
Hollis Hildebrand-Mills 
How exciting, Hollis! I wish we could all take a road trip to NY to see your work. I wonder if we could talk Jenny into it? 🙂
I love the piece!
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Thanks Jill! I wonder if someday we will all talk each other into meeting in person! Wouldn’t that be fun? As if we are old friends, we could talk non-stop for an entire weekend!
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Oh I wish I could be there, Hollis – just a bit too far for me I’m afraid. Very best wishes and lots of luck for your show here.
By the way – have you ever come across a Maura Haverly in the art world?
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She is quite something isn’t she? I like her energy, don’t you? Imagine hooking up with someone of her stature!!!! Thanks, Jenny. I think I will follow her blog!
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The reason I asked is because she married a friend of my husband’s. We knew them well for a while before they moved back to America and saw them again when we briefly visited New York. Sadly since then, we have lost touch but I remember her as a bubbly fun girl with masses of blonde curls.
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Yes, she looked like a bubbly fun girl! (In her picture!) Thank you for making me aware of her. You never know….Paths can cross!
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Jenny, wouldn’t you have loved to have seen that Absolut Art Bar? At Art Basel in Hong Kong?
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Interesting is one of the best words for me. Isn’t it funny how the addition of not even a face, but of an eye suddenly makes it into so much more than “not just a shape”? And I find eyes so much more difficult to draw than other facial features. Not because of their exact shape but if they are not right it deadens the whole portrait. (Not that I have drawn for ages, since I was a child.) But this eye is right!
I wish I could come to your exhibition!
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Me too!
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Congrats to you! I love hearing about your creative process!
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Thank you! I love talking about it. It is so natural to me to share stuff like this. It makes the process less singular! Thanks for commenting!
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Can’t make it for this show, but would love to go back to NYC with you again sometime.
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Wouldn’t that be fun? We had such a great time! Tornadoes in Brooklyn and lightening striking my bracelets! 🙂
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