White Sands, New Mexico

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Work in progress

My work in progress for Surrealscapes. Check more out here.

Copyright, Jennifer Moore, 2012

Copyright, Jennifer Moore, 2013

Copyright, Jennifer Moore, 2013

Join me for a workshop in New Mexico

I will be hosting a workshop at Dona Ana College in Las Cruses, NM April 5-6, 2013. Space is limited. Contact Paul Shranz for more information or feel free to email me. 

This is a workshop designed to help participants tap into their own personal experiences to create a more defined dramatic narrative in their photography. Its purpose it also to demonstrate how incredibly informative the process of self-portraiture can be. Using yourself as a model to tell a story makes your imagery even more personal and allows you to participate directly with your space and your image. 

Chances are you’re not the only person experiencing your story; this workshop will demonstrate how your personal experiences can be viewed and interpreted on a larger scale to evoke social or political change, to create a voice through imagery, to create drama and tension, and to tell a story in one single image.

This workshop emphasizes techniques that allow you to create dramatic narrative photography through the use of simplistic set-ups, props and symbolism, natural and artificial light and Photoshop skills.

Exhibition Updates

This has been a busy week of preparing for several exhibitions: Flying House collaboration, Woman Made Gallery's exhibition, "Inspired By," Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts Exhibition, "Diversity," Art Space's "Synergy" exhibition in Vienna, Austria and Flow Art Space's exhibition, "Passages, Pathways and Portals" (information for all shows listed below.) Please plan to attend one or all! of the exhibitions.

As always, check out more of me here. 


Passages, Pathways and Portals
Flow Art Space
13th Avenue NE
Minneapolis MN
Exhibition Dates: Aug 8-25
Opening: Thursday, August 9

Inspired By
Woman Made Gallery
685 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL
Exhibition Dates: August 24 - September 27, 2012
Opening: Friday, August 24

Flying House 2012
Maes Gallery 
167 North Racine, Suite 1 
Chicago, IL
Opening: Saturday, August 25
 
Synergy
Art Space 191 
Vienna, Austria  
Opening: September 12 

Diversity
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts  
New York 28  Blue Mountain Lake, NY
Exhibition Dates: August 31st - September 29th, 2012 

I love good news!

I've been working diligently on another project which is an extension of "Creatures" - images will be posted soon!

But I'd love to share some wonderful news...

I have been invited by photographer and professor, Paul Shranz to Dona Ana College in Las Cruces, NM to host a workshop. Dates and workshop description to follow - but I'll give you a hint - the workshop will be held in the spring and will involve instruction on theatrical narrative photographic work.

Also, I am happy to report that my work, Blasphemy Rules the World in White Dresses was blogged about by BAS-relief. (Read the entry, curtsey of http://brophyarts.blogspot.com/ below or visit the blog which includes wonderful write ups about local Chicago artists.)

Fear Not That Which Watches You

Blasphemy Rules the World in White Dresses Jennifer Moore
Photo courtesy of http://www.jmooreart.blogspot.com/

I am seeing the trend in photography selections, fear not, it will not last.  This artists however bears mention.  On my first adventure to the Zhou B Art Center I was overwhelmed by the abundane of art on display.  A bit chaotic, the gallery was filled with scultptures, paintings, photographs, and onlookers.

I entered the first exhibit, FACEMASK the 8th Annual National Self-Portrait exhibition, curated by Sergio Gomez.  I wasn't sure what I was walking into, but I was arrested by this digital print by Jennifer Moore, Blasphemy Rules the World in White Dresses.  The print is luminous, with an ethereal glow exuding from the white clad figure.  A soft focus on the edges brings the work into a beautiful dream-like state.  While many may find the piece haunting, the woman behind the skull, there is something very serene about the work in person.

I continued my stroll through the warehouse, walking into numerous spaces, but this work by Moore is one that has followed me into my work week beyond the gallery openings.

Moore is a local, Chicago digital artist, featured in numerous gallery exhibitions throughout Chicagoland.  To see more work by Moore visit her site and her blog.

Flying House!

I am more than thrilled to say that I have been chosen to  participate in Flying House 2012,  an annual collaboration project that kicks off each Spring with the announcement of five artist-writer pairs.Once the pairs are chosen, the collaborative projects begin. When the work is completed, there is a show, a reading and last but not least, an anthology for all of our lovely sponsors, friends, family, and participants to enjoy. The books are on sale online through the Flying House website, at the show, and hopefully soon, at independent bookstores around Chicago. 

I have been paired with CD Mitchell, who has a long list of publications, including "This, too, is Vanity" and "Stud Fee." He also has a laundry-list of life-time experience ranging from defense attorney to professional boxer.


His Flying House Bio is listed below: 

CD Mitchell’s stories are at once realist, and insanely far-fetched. His submission, God’s Naked Will, centers around a southern preacher heading north in search of a solution to his problem (he’s a virgin and needs a woman––unknown to his parish––to remedy his virgin situation), and at the same time it’s a story of entrapment––by God, and by a sly prostitute named Delilah. CD turns the table of expectations in a Flannery O’Connor sort of way, which makes for nice surprises. 

CD has a large list of publications to his name, as well as Pushcart nominations. He holds an MFA with concentrations in fiction and creative nonfiction, and currently teaches at Middle Tennessee State University. As he puts it, “I was a boxer, attorney, carpenter, fry cook, daddy, and an ex-husband four times. But I have never been a best man.”



My Flying House Bio is listed below. Pretty cool.  And, as always, check me out here.


Jennifer Moore is currently a professor of photography at the Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago.
Her themes draw on personal experiences rooted in relationships, family, birth, death, sexuality, gender roles and religion. She explores the commonalities inherent in these themes through photography and digital art, hoping to better understand humanity, motherhood and womanhood. More often than not, she incorporates text directly into her work.

Jennifer earned both a Bachelor of Arts degree (2002) and a Master in Arts degree (2005) from Governors State University. Her award-winning photography has been shown in exhibitions all across Illinois, and very soon in the Regional Museum of Natural Science in Turin, Italy.

All Ready for Italy!

Matted, framed and packaged! All ready for the show in Tourin, Italy.

Unnatural Annihilation, 2012

You eat the earth without regret, without regard for her. You treat her as one would treat a cheating lover. Forget her beauty. Forget her graciousness. Forget her ability to give selflessly. Forget her.  Use her like she will be there forever. Use her like she means nothing. Use her like she is a whore. Use her. Abuse her. Consume her without regret. No need to reach for her. She submits. She takes your abuse. Sometimes it looks like she enjoys it. You assume she will always be there. You assume she’s yours alone. You assume she cannot fight back. You mistake her calm for weakness. But one day you will feel her wrath. You will feel how wrong you were. You will feel regret. You will feel shame. You will feel like the whore.

-Jennifer Moore