Jennifer Liston Munson
Querini Stampalia #2, oil on plaster, 14 x 14 x 1.5 inches, 2021
Artist Statement
Materiality and process are important components for me to build object/paintings that tell stories through their surfaces. I think of lost photos, historic architecture, and the landscape as witnesses to history—the presence of absence embedded in layers. Those things are metaphors for personal loss and history—links between the public and the personal. I try to conjure that evanescence in the images I collect and transform.
My methodology combines a high tech-low tech process of photo, electronic imaging, painting, and carpentry. The imagery I frame is of the periphery, I add the foreground by hand after in the studio. Sanded surfaces blur the initial image to engage looking by emphasizing how we see rather than what we see. In this way, perception itself is the subject.
Artist Bio
Jennifer Liston Munson is a Boston-based artist whose work is held in many private and corporate collections. Her high-tech-low tech process combines her training as a painter and fiber artist with her interest in electronic imaging, film, and photography. Liston Munson received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Loughborough College of Art and Design in England. She has won many awards, including the 2001 Traveling Scholar award which culminated with a show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Alcazar Toledo, Spain #2, 2020, Oil, resin, archival print, wood, 14 x 9 x 1.75
Alcazar Toledo, Spain #5, 2020, Oil, resin, archival print, wood, 14 x 9 x 1.75
Alcazar Toledo, Spain #1, 2020, Oil, resin, archival print, wood, 14 x 9 x 1.75
Querini Stampalia #5, 2021, oil on plaster,wood, 2021, 14 x 14 x 1.5
Installation, Memory Keepers, archival print, resin, oil, wood, 2021, 8 x 8 x 1.5 each
Exhibitions
2023 The Color of Memory, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA, upcoming
2022 Solo pop-up exhibition, curated by Beth Kantrowitz, Arlington, MA
2022 Hopscotch, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston, MA
2021 Lockets & Lace, curated by Beth Kantrowitz, Jameson & Thompson, Jamaica Plain, MA
2020 The Yellow Wallpaper, curated by Janet Hicks and Beth Kantrowitz, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY
2020 Solo exhibition, Inclinadas: Leaning in from Mexico City, Shelter In Place Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 Art in the Time of Corona: A Global Art Project, curated by Yessica Torres, Dab Art Co, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Solo exhibition, Invisible Histories: New Work by Jennifer Liston Munson, All+One gallery, Portsmouth, NH
2020 Structure, Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, curated by Bill Schwab
2019 Dot Conference, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Kirstin Lamb
2019 Dot Conference, Watertown, MA, curated by Kirstin Lamb
2018 The Line Begins to Blur, Sasaki Gallery, curated by bk projects, Watertown, MA
2017 In Transit, Stove Factory Gallery, Chelsea, MA
2016 Ptown Pop Up, curated by bk projects, 444 Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2015 Wheaton Biennial, Beard and Weil Gallery, Norton, MA
2015 Motion, Memory, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2015 Solo exhibition, Cuba Provides, curated by bk projects, Cutter Gallery, Arlington, MA
2015 In Passing, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 P.O.E.M., Cushing-Martin Gallery, Stonehill College, Easton, MA
2011 Popsicle, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2009 Solo exhibition, Glance, multi-media installation, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 Tracks, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 Introductions, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 Imaging Machines, multi-media installation, UMass Art Gallery
2000 Head Over Heels, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
1999 New England/New York, New Talent, Hampshire College Art Gallery,Contact + Links
1998 Notes from the Next Life, Invisible Cities Group, Somerville, MA, Amherst, MA
1998 Emerging Artists, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1998 National Print and Drawing Show, Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT
1999 Solo exhibition, Being Temporal Being, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 Solo exhibition, Mars, Christina and Me, \Lincoln Art Gallery, RI
1997 Eleven Artists, Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, MA