Strange Drama in Black and White
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On May 1, 2012 Jennifer Day will offer her exhibit “Black and White: Strange Drama” at the First Religious Society, 26 Pleasant Street, Newburyport.  This exhibit will continue through the month of May.  Office hours are weekdays from 8am to 1pm and Sunday mornings. Jennifer achieves a wide range of grays by rubbing oil paint away with paper towels, brushes and fingers, to expose light and white gessoed surface beneath. (Continued below)

 

The goal is to maximize the gray scale and organize it in such a way that is impossible for photography, while still maintaining the strange drama and ineffability of the black and white construct.

Ten years ago, Jennifer Day put aside colorist tendencies to commit to a single pigment choice, black. By limiting her options, the artist felt freer to concentrate on imagery and composition and to follow the lead of photographers who either never had the option of color, or who were similarly drawn to the totally imaginary world of light and shade. Like early photography, the artist strives for a haunting, nostalgic emotion for a world that never existed, except in the early “grisailles” of masters who would eventually apply color glazes upon these substrata or, of course, in the world of film.

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Jennifer Day resides and works in Newburyport, Ma. A native to New England, she grew up in the Boston area and on Cape Cod where her summers were spent in and on the bay, hence her love of the ocean. Ms. Day was educated at Bowdoin College and subsequently at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Having taught art at St. George's School and Phillips Academy, the artist then went on to the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania where she earned her MFA in painting under the mentorship of Neil Welliver. For many years, the artist has balanced the concentration on her own work with that of teaching. She is a former adjunct professor of art at Colby-Sawyer College.

Recently, Ms. Day has been the recipient of both the New Members Jury Award and the First Prize in the Summer 2006 Exhibition at the Copley Society on Newbury Street in Boston. As a Copley Artist, she will be exhibiting intermittently this year at “CoSo” and in the spring of 2013 at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston where she is also a member. Other major exhibits include a solo show of large-scale seascapes at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in 2009. She is represented by the Scott Bundy Galleries in Kennebunkport, Maine.

For further information and images, please go to www.jenniferdayart.com

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