Jennifer Aldridge

Even when painting the figure, Jennifer Aldridge is a still life painter.  She paints the flesh of humans and animals, from evocative vulnerability into geometric stasis.  To her, meat signals connection and dissolution, presence and transition.  Time cycles, changes occur, as the still life is drawn from, as the still life is painted.  Visual choices must be made.  Meat concerns our materiality, and somehow, in the processes inherent to the physical, it is discovered that the individual is more than the body, more than the flesh.  But, what more?  How much more? 

The contemplative act of painting is an act of discovery, of self, of others, of Other.  The private icons painted are as open to interpretation as any ritual act in contemporary life, from the consumption of corporate media to the consumption of animal flesh.

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