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Artist Exhibitions:
May 5 - 31, 2001 - One person
exhibition at the Eastern
Shore Art Center, Woolley
Gallery, Fairhope, Alabama.
November 1 - 30, 2000 - One
person exhibition at Purdue
University Calumet, Hammond,
IN
March 29 - May 19, 2000: Group
exhibition, "New Works by
Sigrid Burton, Rosenfeld, and
Jennifer Young", Hofstra
Museum, Hempstead, NY
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Artist Galleries:
Art Source Gallery, Raleigh,
North Carolina
City Art Gallery, Greenville,
North Carolina
Greystone Gallery, Cambria,
California
The Left Bank Gallery, St.
Simons, Georgia
The Little Gallery, Smith
Mountain Lake, Virginia
Noli Design, Cold Spring
Harbor, NY
Redwing Fine Art Gallery,
Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts
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Artist Statement for Jennifer Young
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My adventure into the realm of landscape painting has been at once incredibly inspiring and humbling. With nature as my teacher and my constant companion, I delight in observing her play of light and shadow, the colors of her skies, and the softness and depth of her atmosphere. I am humbled by her complexities and utter beauty. The more I paint in nature, the more I learn to hone my skills of observation. True sight, really looking, is, for me, the greatest challenge of landscape painting.
I know I could never duplicate all of those complexities in a single painting--or a hundred paintings, for that matter. But I revel in being able to suggest them, hint at them. I paint my responses to land before me, which are largely those of joy and awe.
I admit I am hooked on color, so I am constantly in pursuit of warm sunny places that foster gardens and flowers. I also love the mellower, more subtle colors of mountain streams and distant hills, as well as the seas cutting into grassy marshes. These pursuits have taken me to some beautiful places; France, Italy, the Blue Ridge mountains, and the low country of the American South.
I paint both in the studio from studies and from photos I take on sight, and directly from life "en plein air". "En plein" air is a French term meaning "in the open air", and it hearkens back to a long tradition of outdoor landscape painting made famous by the Barbizon School, and the Impressionists who followed. I am inspired by the great landscape painters Monet, Sargent, Sisley, Corot, and too many others to name. But mostly I am inspired by nature herself. By far she is the greatest teacher, and the toughest taskmaster!
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