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Sun Valley Center show opening March 13th!

3/11/2014

I'm so pleased to have another opportunity to show with the Sun Valley Center for the Arts! Vita Brevis Press: Printmaking and Collaboration opens THIS Thursday, March 13th at 5:30pm at the Sun Valley Center's Ezra Pound House in Hailey. This show features my work and the work of five artists who have worked closely with me at Vita Brevis Press. The show will highlight the diversity of work that comes off the press and will also illuminate the collaborative process between artist and master printer. I look forward to seeing you there!

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Jen Galpin

At my center, I’m a realist painter. However, I’ve moved away from strict representational painting and I’ve begun collaging techniques (monotype and lithographic photo transfer with oil painting) and bringing my strongest skills from each into play. My work originates in response to language- bits of songs, sentence fragments, poetry- words that have created a specific impression or evoked a strong emotion in me. I’m interested in creating fiction with realism and I allow my process to be associative. I work from my own photographs, sometimes transferring them and sometimes painting from them. Often I will sit with a photo I find evocative for months, having no immediate plan as to how I will use it. Then an idea from another process presents itself, or a corresponding image flashes into my mind, and I suddenly know where that piece fits. My work tells a story, but I don’t tell the story from beginning to end. I leave it open ended and allow the viewer space to bring their own experience to the work.

Sun Valley Center show opening March 13th!

Jen Galpin

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