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Jenny Buffington Artist Statement My work addresses man’s complex interactions with nature: how he projects himself onto it, sees images in it, searches for the best view point, attempts to enhance it, and attempts to conquer it. It examines how a colored light show can transform a place into a spectacle, paradoxically saying it is important – LOOK AT THIS! – while suggesting the subject is not spectacular enough on its own. The work also questions who it is that’s doing the looking: the spectator, the tourist. By regurgitating modes of illusion found in pop culture (scale shifts, layers of artifice, enhanced lighting, Disney’s berms and weenies), my work explores how we perceive, and are made to perceive, the world around us. Curriculum Vitae Education 2008 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA MFA Sculpture Candidate. 2006 Herron School of Art, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN BFA Sculpture. (graduated magna cum laude) Professional Experience 2007-2008 Teaching Assistantship, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA. 2006-2007 Graduate Assistantship, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA. Exhibits 2007 From One State To Another, VCU FAB Gallery, (Curated by Gregory Volk) Cheltenham Biennial II, Tyler Blai Hall “Every Artist Is A Person”, Flux Space Storage / Cave, EZ Storage, (one person show) Carking It, Tyler Penrose Gallery Powers of Ten, Barbershop Gallery 2006 Custody Battle, Tyler Penrose Gallery First Class, Big Car Gallery WARNING, Herron Sculpture Gallery 2005 “March”, Cultural Arts Gallery, IUPUI War Today, Historic School 30 Splendid Feats, Herron Sculpture Gallery Public Commissions 2006 George Pogue’s Disappearance Pogue’s Run Park, Indianapolis, IN
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 Jenny Buffington Pilmgrim/Madonna and Child Stalagmite Storage Building, Lights, FGR, Foam 2007  Jenny Buffington Pilmgrim/Madonna and Child Stalagmite Storage Building, Lights, FGR, Foam 2007  The Look of a Generation (Niagara Falls) Carving of Horseshoe Falls with colored light display. March, 2007 Cedar, steel, lights 8’ x 4’ x 6’  A Place To See Before You Die Show Card |
