Jennifer Presant’s second solo show “Passing Through” opened at St. Barth’s Eden Rock Gallery on July 1. Presant lived and worked on the island under the artist-in-residence program with the gallery for the month of June. During the residency, she allowed her unique style of composition and detail be effected by her surroundings.
Presant attended the New York Academy of Art (which has a strong relationship with Eden Rock Gallery), where she trained in figurative realism and graphic design. In her work, she combines the two practices to create paintings that play with layers of images and renderings the way photography does. Changing the internal to the external, opacities to the subjects, Presant’s paintings project the idea of our uncontrollable environments and the memories they leave in us.
Read the whole article in Whitewall Magazine.
