| Jennifer Spencer is a painter/photographer who creates images using alternative photographic processes and digital imagery. Jennifer’s painting experience has informed her photography and the way she looks at the photographic image.
Jennifer’s career began as a painter back East in Massachusetts. After moving to California in the mid 1970’s, her painting began to change. It was during her brief business adventure in painting backdrops for photographers, that her interest in photography emerged. Jennifer's curiosity and creative interests blossomed after attending Grossmont Community College where she acquired an Associates Degree in Digital Art Media and Fine Art Photography.
Jennifer’s sensibility toward painting can be seen in her most recent series of photographic “paintings”, “Dancing to Abstraction” and her gravitation to alternative photographic processes, such as gum printing, platinum/palladium, and pigmented palladiums.
RESUME
Selected Exhibitions: (photography)
2010 Platinum Print Festival, Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, Oregon
2010 Worldwide Photography Awards, Julia Margaret Cameron, Honorable Mention(juror, Carol McCusker) award finalist
2010 New Americans Museum, "f45 Group/Grossmont College"
2010 Temecula Arts Council, "Visual Expressions", Honorable Mention
2010 Art Expressions Gallery, "Movers&Shakers" invitational
2009 Arts&Culture Festival, Market Place Plaza, San Diego, CA, 1st Place Award
2009 Two Nations-Two Visions: The Photography of Julio Rodriguez Ramos and Jennifer Spencer," Mandell Weiss Gallery @ Dance Place San Diego, NTC Promenade – current exhibition until September 6, 2009
2009 “Dancing to Abstraction”, Mandell Weiss Gallery, Dance Place, NTC Promenade, San Diego, CA
2009 “Invitational”, Hyde Gallery, Grossmont Community College, El Cajon, CA
2006 Grossmont Hyde Gallery, Photo Club award
2005 Grossmont Hyde Gallery, House and Art Council awards
Selected Solo Exhibitions (painting):
1995 Amador County Arts Council, Cultural Center, Sutter Creek, CA – “Lyrical Abstractions”
1990 Imperial Valley College Art Gallery, Imperial Valley, CA
1987 Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, Oregon
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