The Artist

Jenna Fournier is a self-taught artist who began selling her work informally in Las Vegas  at the age of 18. A military brat, she has lived all over the West Coast including outside LA and inside Las Vegas, and moved about every 2 years since birth. Jenna has been drawing, sculpting, and creating art since she could use her hands, and now works mostly with oils or computer graphics. Her bigger influences include Dali , Picasso , and Franz Marc.  Jenna also plays and performs with Sparrows & Arrows, and indie-rock back in which she is a singer/songwriter/guitarist.

Statement

 

Painting calms ... and allows me to create something that is purely personal, unlike the collaboration of writing and playing with my band.  I paint bright happy things to counteract the way I'm actually feeling, not because I sit around and think of flowers and rainbows. It is a personal effort to create positive art for people. There is enough violence, ugliness and pain out there; I don't need a violent painting to make me stop and think of that. I would rather see something that is hopeful and lovely, especially in times where I feel like giving up.  I also feel there is no shock value left in much of the 'post-modern' art - people are no longer shocked by violence, perverse art, vulgarity, nudity, any of it- it's merely a reflection of what's all around them.  Shocking art would be something moral.

I paint to inspire others and because I feel I must since I have been given [this] gift. The consistent  randomness in my work represents my opinion of how much time is spent and wasted on things that don't matter. I don't follow many rules ... I feel art should be free, and inspire freedom in return - Freedom from self-absorption and self-destruction.

Visit Jenna during the opening to discuss her vision.