JENNIFER BEND [2000, PAINTING]

Based in Excelsior, MN

My paintings start with a hunch or inclination. It is as if I am in a playground with the toys as tools at my disposal to do with as I see fit. I take on the role of the dreamer or child when I set out to make a painting. To me the surface of the canvas is like a stage which I play on as I transform myself into different characters or objects depending on the scene depicted. I relate to the painter Paula Rego when she says her studio is like a playroom, ” a self-contained enclosure within the boundaries of which anything is permissible and possible.”

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