Jennifer Myhre, More Art Less Fear

About

Based in northern Arizona, Jen Myhre is a collage artist with roots in filmmaking and printmaking. She received a graduate certificate in documentary filmmaking from George Washington University and edited two award winning documentaries. This foundation has shaped her current practice in collage and printmaking, as have her former day jobs as a sociologist and community organizer. She imprinted on the desert landscapes of Arizona but loves the salty briny scent of her childhood on the Peconic Bay in New York and learned to love trees in the old growth redwood forests in her three decades in California. Her mission is to produce work that generates wonder in the sense of curiosity--raising questions about how we are complicit in and actively resisting the human systems that produce large scale suffering--and in the sense of awe–delight and discovery both of the living world that surrounds us and of our own capacities, courage and creativity. Myhre’s work has been exhibited in galleries in Arizona, California, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Virginia and Canada.