Thyme in the Studio: Art & Wellness

Jennifer Lord on being Juniper and Finding Yourself in the Verdant Fields

Episode Summary

You are going to love this episode with Jennifer Lord! We dive into painting, being a librarian, learning and teaching tai chi chuan and ikebana, butoh and being a mom. And fashion! I attended a gallery exhibition and was immediately drawn to the vibrant paintings by Jennifer and then I got to meet her and she has such a wonderful and thoughtful presence. Was an absolute delight to chat with her and got so much from this chat. Bio Jennifer Lord is an artist and teacher. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Naropa University in Visual Arts and T’ai Chi Ch’uan. She studies and teaches T’ai Chi Ch’uan with Rocky Mountain T’ai Chi Ch’uan. She is a student of Sogetsu Ikebana with Kalapa Ikebana. Lord’s most recent events include, a solo exhibition at JuiceBox Gallery, a solo exhibition at Alto Gallery, a group show at MegaFauna, digital video collaboration with Noah Travis Phillips published online by RealityBeach.org and exhibited at Sluice in London. She has a forthcoming collaboration with the MÚSED fashion house. Lord exhibited ikebana in the 2018 annual Sogetsu Ikebana Spring Show in Denver, Colorado. Lord’s collaboration TEAM-UP! with Noah Travis Phillips will be published by +4 Press. She lives, works, and teaches in Boulder, Colorado. Her work is held in several private collections. ARTIST STATEMENT Speculative Abstract Rainbow-scapes. Working in acrylic on canvas or hardwood panels, I make paintings that are simultaneous. The poetic titles of my paintings act as a door into the work and provoke multiple meanings. My work is a portal into another way of seeing the natural world, one of flux and interconnection, an encounter both destabilized and unified. My paintings are ecological and cosmological, depicting different scales and perspectives from various subject orientations. These paintings disrupt singular notions of subject/object. I present emergence, simultaneity, relationship, and multi-directional flows. While working, I remain on the edge between mapping an image or landscape and being receptive to that which arises through process. This edge is generative, spontaneous, and dynamic. I work with both the specificity of place and the abstractness of nature and phenomenon. I think about climate change, natural and environmental disasters, and the supernatural through process-responsive gestural painting. The accretion and variety of marks within my paintings coalesce to create an ecology. This ecology of marks describes various emotional, physical, and hidden material qualities of the landscape. My methodology is cosmological. My current series, under the working title, “Natural/Human Disasters” explores the interconnection of human and geologic Earth shaping forces. My bold and complex paintings explore the human caused destruction of nuclear bombs and mass-scale weaponry, mining, and oil spills alongside phenomena like lightning, volcanoes, floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes. These paintings are chaotic and harmonious imaginary landscapes of the Anthropocene. Simultaneously looking at the tension between environmental destruction and ecological wholeness, my work is always on the side of nature’s doubtless awesome vitality, grounded in the majesty of mountains and the magic of rainbows. Jennifer Lord links: https://juniperlord.com https://www.instagram.com/juniperlord/ https://www.juiceboxdenver.com/ Thyme in the Studio info: You can sign up for my haiku hello newsletter sent every fortnight. Just a haiku, and whatever else comes through to be shared like songs, recipes or photos.  Sign up at my website www.aidazea.com https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/ https://www.aidazea.com If you enjoy the show and are in a secure place financially please consider supporting the show on Patreon/Thyme in the Studio. I know many people are feeling the pinch of the current corona pandemic financially. If that is you, but you would like to do something to support the show please follow, subscribe, rate, and review the show on apple podcasts. If you leave a review please feel free to include your website or instagram handle to bring more awareness to your work as well. I want to support and you! Music by Komiku

Episode Notes

You are going to love this episode with Jennifer Lord! We dive into painting, being a librarian, learning and teaching tai chi chuan and ikebana, butoh and being a mom. And fashion! I attended a gallery exhibition and was immediately drawn to the vibrant paintings by Jennifer and then I got to meet her and she has such a wonderful and thoughtful presence. Was an absolute delight to chat with her and got so much from this chat. 

Bio

Jennifer Lord is an artist and teacher. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Naropa University in Visual Arts and T’ai Chi Ch’uan. She studies and teaches T’ai Chi Ch’uan with Rocky Mountain T’ai Chi Ch’uan. She is a student of Sogetsu Ikebana with Kalapa Ikebana. Lord’s most recent events include, a solo exhibition at JuiceBox Gallery, a solo exhibition at Alto Gallery, a group show at MegaFauna, digital video collaboration with Noah Travis Phillips  published online by RealityBeach.org and exhibited at Sluice in London. She has a forthcoming collaboration with the MÚSED fashion house. Lord exhibited ikebana in the 2018 annual Sogetsu Ikebana Spring Show in Denver, Colorado. Lord’s collaboration TEAM-UP! with Noah Travis Phillips will be published by +4 Press. She lives, works, and teaches in Boulder, Colorado. Her work is held in several private collections.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Speculative Abstract Rainbow-scapes.

Working in acrylic on canvas or hardwood panels, I make paintings that are simultaneous. The poetic titles of my paintings act as a door into the work and provoke multiple meanings.

My work is a portal into another way of seeing the natural world, one of flux and interconnection, an encounter both destabilized and unified. My paintings are ecological and cosmological, depicting different scales and perspectives from various subject orientations. These paintings disrupt singular notions of subject/object. I present emergence, simultaneity, relationship, and multi-directional flows.

While working, I remain on the edge between mapping an image or landscape and being receptive to that which arises through process. This edge is generative, spontaneous, and dynamic. I work with both the specificity of place and the abstractness of nature and phenomenon. I think about climate change, natural and environmental disasters, and the supernatural through process-responsive gestural painting.

The accretion and variety of marks within my paintings coalesce to create an ecology. This ecology of marks describes various emotional, physical, and hidden material qualities of the landscape. My methodology is cosmological.

My current series, under the working title, “Natural/Human Disasters” explores the interconnection of human and geologic Earth shaping forces. My bold and complex paintings explore the human caused destruction of nuclear bombs and mass-scale weaponry, mining, and oil spills alongside phenomena like lightning, volcanoes, floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes. These paintings are chaotic and harmonious imaginary landscapes of the Anthropocene.

Simultaneously looking at the tension between environmental destruction and ecological wholeness, my work is always on the side of nature’s doubtless awesome vitality, grounded in the majesty of mountains and the magic of rainbows.

Jennifer Lord links:

https://juniperlord.com

https://www.instagram.com/juniperlord/

https://www.juiceboxdenver.com/

Thyme in the Studio info:

You can sign up for my haiku hello newsletter sent every fortnight. 

Just a haiku, and whatever else comes through to be shared like songs, recipes or photos.  

Sign up at my website www.aidazea.com

https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio

https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/

https://www.aidazea.com

 If you enjoy the show and are in a secure place financially please consider supporting the show on Patreon/Thyme in the Studio. I know many people are feeling the pinch of the current corona pandemic financially. If that is you, but you would like to do something to support the show please follow, subscribe, rate, and review the show on apple podcasts. If you leave a review please feel free to include your website or instagram handle to bring more awareness to your work as well. I want to support and you!

Music by Komiku