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STATEMENT OF WORK
Jen Wohlner’s detailed pen and colored pencil drawings and ceramic sculptures address the repetitive architecture and planning of modern residential communities and the isolated individuals who inhabit them.
The drawings demonstrate a harsh endurance and obsession via precise pen lines and meticulously filled, almost machine-like, blocks of colored pencil. The drawings’ subject matter — homes, neighborhoods, the sun, mazes, religious messaging — invites viewers to reflect on the private, protective or exclusionary spaces in their domestic communities and neighborhoods. The ceramic sculptures are figurative and fluid. Wohlner’s bright, glossy glazes create a nostalgia for vintage and mid-century vases popular in domestic decor. And her restrained use of human characteristics in the sexualized figures produce confusion about the sculptures’ gender and anatomy. Jen's art is a reflection on the unknowability and darkness of domestic, private, individual spaces.