Sculpture and model, Burden 2020 reflects on the physical and emotional weight of 2020.
Photograph
Tiny Monster: Joy
Hand-woven colored porcelain and nylon cord on a backstrap loom
2021
Burden 2020
Colored Porcelain, Linen, Stainless steel.
Burden 2020 is a sculpture and photograph from Jen Rose’s Little Monster series. Objects in this series are ambiguous forms made from colored porcelain and linen fibers. The Little Monsters are unruly and uncontained sculptures that channel the artist’s feelings about the tumultuous year of 2020. Burden 2020 was designed with an awareness of the model’s skin tone and executed in shades of pink and white porcelain. The distinction between body and sculpture is blurred as the she lifts the sculpture to shoulder the weight of a psychic and physical growth.
This site-specific installation was created for the Morean Center for Clay in St. Petersburg, Florida in November, 2019
Flight of the Polychromatic Zooids
Media: Colored Porcelain, Stainless Steel,
Original music composition by David Thompson
video of artwork and music: https://youtu.be/BtkPGLPQphw
2019-2020
Statement:
“My 15-year exploration of biology began with an interest in the human form and has evolved into studies of invasive environments and underwater creatures. The ocean is fascinating because it is still vastly unexplored. I associate underwater worlds with the subconscious. The zooids are organisms ripe with metaphor because of their colonial animal status. The fact that they are individual clones operating as one animal make them one and many at the same time and prompt philosophical questions about the collective subconscious, hive mind, and cognitive dissonance
Oasis
Colored Porcelain
40”x40”x4”
2500 pieces
An “Oasis” is a collection of hollow porcelain cones that collect a few drops of rain or sprinkler water for thirsty bees as they go about their daily chores. Each cone is called a “bee cup”. This oasis is about five-feet across and contains 1800 bee cups.
1,000 porcelain tentacles. This installation represents one year of work. Each tentacle was created by hand and no two are alike.
1,000 porcelain tentacles. This installation represents one year of work. Each tentacle was created by hand and no two are alike. They have been exhibited at Brookhaven College, Alaskan Robotics Gallery in Juneau, Alaska, and at the Carneal Simmons Gallery in Dallas, Texas.