Focus Sun Valley is a new quarterly magazine dedicated to all things culture in our beautiful valley! This is a gorgeous and interesting magazine and I'm excited to be included in the first issue! Check out the Q + A on page 110!
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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. Archives
February 2015
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