Jenny Pivor
Life is a Photo Shoot
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Jazzed • 2 artworks
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This collection of images has deep roots in my love of music, photography, and art. It comes from my[...]
This collection of images has deep roots in my love of music, photography, and art. It comes from my collection of photos of musicians, which started when I had the opportunity to hear a lot of jazz and meet a lot of the players. I learned how much music moved me and being an artist, I yearned to somehow interpret those feelings visually. The process starts by finding images from my archive or shooting new ones. I combine them in Photoshop with other unrelated photos of shapes and colors. Sometimes these images come from nature, using flocks of birds taking flight. After compositing, many of these new images then find their way into my graphics programs. As I work, my images are informed by my background as a painter, and I consider the works of my favorite artists: David Hockney, Henri Rousseau, Gustav Klimpt, and Edward Hopper, that employ strong compositions, often with large areas of flat color, balanced with pattern and smaller shapes.
Glasscapes: Digital images printed on aluminum • 4 artworks
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I am drawn to the new colors and patterns formed when I overlay a tiny sample of color from my photos[...]
I am drawn to the new colors and patterns formed when I overlay a tiny sample of color from my photos of colored glass. I copy a tiny section of pixels and bring it into a new file and stretch them out to create forms, and then overlay them, designing fantasy landscapes, or abstract compositions. I call these works GLASSCAPES, since the when I stretch the pixels into new shapes, they react the same as blowing glass with its translucency, giving these works their crystalline appearance. Recently I have been experimenting with texture, working it in with layers of scanned-in scumbled patterns, which contrast the translucent forms. The GLASSCAPES are output on aluminum, sized 18 x 36 and up and are float-mounted, 1 1/2" from the wall.
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Professional Artist
Exercises the profession of artist as a main activity
Exercises the profession of artist as a main activity
Biography
A photo-based artist, Jenny Pivor comes to photography from a background in graphic and web design as well as painting.
She creates various themes, interpreting her feelings about jazz, the natural world, the state of the world, and relatable moments in street photography, but all feature large areas of flat color, balanced with patterns and blended shapes that convey a powerful sense of solitude. Her composite, digital art is created by blending disparate images shot at different places and times revealing a new statement, stronger and different than either of the originals on their own. Comments about her work range from “beautiful” to “strong” to “graphic”.
Previously Boston-based, Jenny now lives with her cat and dog in the seaside town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. There is seldom a day when Jenny isn’t shooting photos in her beautiful seacoast town, editing, or painting. This website contains some of her main areas of interest, which are capturing a strong color statement as well as human emotions, rather than simply capturing a scene. She hopes that each of these galleries will touch something in you.
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Nationality:
UNITED STATES
- Date of birth : 1958
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary American Artists
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Last modification date : Nov 25, 2023
(Member since 2012)
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Added May 11, 2012
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UPCOMING SHOWS
The Digital Divide
Prints by Jenny Chava Hudson
September 8 - October 29, 2012
Artist's Reception: Sunday, September. 23, 2:30 - 4:40
Acton Memorial Library
486 Main Street, Acton Massachusetts 01720
tel. 978-929-6655
January 2013
McCoy Gallery
Merrimack College
The Digital Divide
Prints by Jenny Chava Hudson
September 8 - October 29, 2012
Artist's Reception: Sunday, September. 23, 2:30 - 4:40
Acton Memorial Library
486 Main Street, Acton Massachusetts 01720
tel. 978-929-6655
January 2013
McCoy Gallery
Merrimack College
Added May 11, 2012
Jenny Hudson Bio
After working as a graphic designer,an art teacher, and then designing and producing her own line of outerwear for the boutique market, Jenny Chava Hudson became smitten with theInternet. In 1998, she studied web design and since then has created sites for universities and non-profits, but mostly designs websites and graphics for creative businesses. Her fascination with all things digital led her to digital painting and she began creating Glasscsapes in 2002. She has taught high school and college art with both traditional and digital media.
Hudson is a past member of the Copley Society, The Cambridge Art Association, the Newburyport Art Association, and has exhibited in galleries in Boston and its North Shore. She has taught various aspects of graphic design, illustration, and digital media at Endicott College and Northern Essex Community College. Her work is in many corporate and private collections.
Added May 11, 2012
Philosophy
I feel that art is to be felt, but that said, it is also visual and design, color, shapes, textures, and value makes us feel. I like art that is innovative. What is the point of copying what has been done? Each artist must listen to his heart and use his eyes.
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