Phantom Galleries LA invites you to view the natural abstracts of painter
Jennifer Tenace.  Please join us for an artist reception on August 8th from 6-9
during the Second Saturday ArtWalk in the East Village Arts District. Curated
by Liza Mitchell. 310-489-8998.  (Also availble to view by apointment.)

Location: 346 E. 3rd Street, Long Beach, CA 90802

Artist Statement:


My work originates from a love and experience of nature. As I began painting
with a desire to mimic certain physical characteristics of natural environments,
I realized that, during the process of painting, I was actually feeling an
experience of nature. Rather than painting something to appear like nature, I
now seek to embody the living act of nature, with no separations between my
self, my work and nature.

Because of this experience of nature within the process of painting, I associate
my work with landscape painting, even though my recent works are abstract in
appearance. I see how my actions through painting are an outlet for me to let go
and play in my own created landscape. My art is more about the process of
painting rather than a painting reaching a stage that is final, much as a
landscape in nature is always alive, always undergoing a process of change – a
building up of circumstances, events, influences and memories. In many ways,
such landscapes reflect my struggles in life…to slow down, to put things
together in a way that is direct and to live in the present moment. I strive to
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0all down on the panel, allowing the painting to always be in the act of
creation, as there is always a constant adding and taking away from the panel. 

Each work becomes a model of a lifestyle for me, teaching me to pay attention to
what is before me in the present and how to react based on instinct and feeling.

As nature is always in the present moment, always in the act of, we are also
acting upon our own moments and thus also always in creation.


Past Exhibitions:


Exhibitions
2009  Brand Library, Glendale, CA

2008  Idle Refuge, The Artery, Costa Mesa, CA

2008  Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, www.infusiongallery.com

2008  Tosti Studios Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, www.tostistudios.com

2008  Contrasts, World Gallery Art, Costa Mesa, CA

2008  Matrix Fine Art, Albuquerque, NM, www.matrixfineart.com

2008 &nbs p;Abstract EXPOsure, January 2008 Juried Exhibition,
www.abstractexposure.com

2007 20Maison Rouge Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007  small works, SCA Project Gallery, www.scagallery.com, Pomona, CA

2007  Rainey Fine Art Gallery, www.raineyfineart.com, Newport Beach, CA

2007  Pastel Project Gallery, Lake Elsinore, CA

2004  Sol Art Gallery, www.solartgallerycafe.com, Santa Ana, CA

2004  The Portrayer, Sol Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA

2004  E Gallery, Pomona, CA

2004  Di Piazzos, Long Beach, CA

2004  La Luna Café, Huntington Beach, CA

2004  Centered on the Center, Huntington Beach Fine Arts Center, Huntington
Beach, CA


2003  Ropage Salon, Laguna Beach, CA

2003  Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA

2001  Ekstrom Studio, Emerging Artists Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA