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Artist Statement:
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Artist Exhibitions:
"Harbinger" Lyle Gallery,
Columbus OH April 2008
Bar of Modern Art, Columbus OH
May 2008...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
Katherine Cohen, London, UK
Meghan Butler, Cleveland, OH
Jennifer Gillis, Naples, FL
Diebler Family, Bucyrus, OH
Shalom Baptist Church,
Byesville, OH
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Commissions:
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Jeanna Henderson Biography:
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Age
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23
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
Christian |
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Cooking, pushups and running, anything Jewish or Israeli, I paint to hard rock and hardly anything else. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Renaissance - (1400 - 1600)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Caravaggio
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Correggio's Assumption
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
My relationship with God is what inspires me to do what I do or else I'd have a normal day job with a weekly paycheck. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
Fell into it. Was called to do it. Led by the hand of God to do what I'd swore my whole childhood and teenage years I'd never do. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Jeanna Henderson is a 2006 graduate of Muskingum College where she received her BA in Fine Art. She has received awards in numerous competitive shows and is being represented by the Lyle Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. Miss Henderson specializes in oil painting and figure drawing. Her oil work is characterized by intense dramatic lighting, dark backgrounds and applying color in thin glazes to give skin tones a luminous quality. Her paintings are reminiscent of the old masters, particularly Caravaggio, the father of ‘tenebrism’, the style she most closely identifies with.
Artist Statement:
“C.S. Lewis said, “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
I derive my personal philosophy on art from this style of thinking. Each time I set out to create a new work, I first must look at something else for inspiration. Nothing created is done so on a whim, not even the most expressive abstract art. A rule of thumb that I use while teaching my students is “Look up, look down, compare; look up, look down, correct”. In order to capture the subject accurately with a pencil, a process of looking up at the subject and then down at the paper and comparing the lines to the actual object must be done to a dizzying effect.
When I stopped to think about what I believe as an artist, I realized that nothing I do is really “creative” or “original” or that worthy of expounding upon for an artist statement. The truth is, I’m constantly in a state somewhere between my spiritual and physical life where I’m looking up and down. Looking at Christ, examining my own heart and comparing the differences. In time I hope the “lines” of my life will reflect the original subject of inspiration.
An excellent art critic may in 200 years be able to examine a work of mine and recognize me in its brush strokes. But my hope is that the average person will instead recognize the message in the painting and that is the mark I wish to leave behind.
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