You can contact me at jennybrd@yahoo.com if you would like to receive email for upcoming shows.

About my work, in brief…

In my work I like to explore the complex interconnectedness of opposites as seen through the prism of myth, fable and fantasy. Visually my paintings have an initial sweetness, you first see the palette, this is the sugar coating, 'the spoon full of sugar that helps the medicine go down'. Once you enter the painting that's where the sweetness gives way to a darker side, the brutality and decay lying quietly beneath beauty and nature, that of the natural world as well as human nature. I am interested in what is 'underneath the pretty', I am trying to dig that stuff up and the character in the painting is the medium revealing those bits of flesh and bone.

I have always been a daydreamer and get many of my ideas during that state of semi-consciousness. My inspirations come from a wide variety of sources including fairytales and fables, mythology, the flora and fauna of the natural world and freaks of nature, melancholy and classical music, long road trips to the middle of nowhere and the surprises found along the way, oddities, Victorian fashion, folk art, costuming, creepy religious statues and paintings, Symbolism, carnivals, trips down memory lane, broken dolls and objects out of place. As well as all the beautiful and sad things that could not exist one without the other, life and death and the veil in between.

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CURRENT AND UPCOMING SHOWS

 

"Creeps and Dreamers" JennyBird Alcantara and Craig La Rotonda

Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Opening August 16, 2008
blackmariagallery.com

Whaleless: Group Show

True Hate Gallery, La Rochelle FR
September 6, 2008
truehate.wordpress.com/

The Circus Show and Other Atrocities


A Bitchin' Space, Sacramento, CA
September 13, 2008
www.abitchinspace.com/Gallery_CircusIndex.html

Bedtime Stories - Group Show

The Gallery at East Atlanta Tattoo, Atlanta, GA
Dec 6 - 20, 2008
www.lowbrowgalleryatlanta.com

Jennybird Alcantara Solo Show

Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Spring 2009
varnishfineart.com

PUBLICATIONS

IdeaFixa
http://www.ideafixa.com/

6. Surrealism - Cover artist

 

Hi Fructose Toyploitation Magazine
http://www.hifructose.com/ Premier Issue

 

Raw Vision
http://www.rawvision.com/
the article
Burning Man in Raw Vision Issue 57: Winter 2006

 

Tart of the Month - June
http://www.thetartgallery.com/

 

MetroActive
http://www.metroactive.com/ February 15-21, 2006

PAST SHOWS

Varnish Gallery: 5th Anniversary Show
 varnishfineart.com
April 2008
Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

thinkspace
FIGHT FOR FLIGHT - Group Show
Los Angeles, CA
January 2008

LADIES ONLY-Art & Music Video Festival
 www.thetartgallery.com/gallery.html
March 2008
Vancouver BC, Canada

GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!
 www.MFgallery.net
February 2008
MF Gallery, NY, NY

Sadly Beautiful: A Vinyl Show
 blackmariagallery.com
February 2008
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Skip the Mall
 blackmariagallery.com
November - December 2007
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

High Fructose; Bitters and Sweets
 www.nineteeneightyeight.com
November 2007
Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, CA

Varnish Gallery; Off the Wall
 varnishfineart.com
November - December 2007
Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Harold Golen Galley
 haroldgolengallery.com
September 8th, 2007
Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL

The Re-Run Show - Group Show
Black Maria Galley
blackmariagallery.com/
July 07
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Seven Brides Electrified
JAIL presents
April 7, 07
Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Black Maria Gallery
Solo Show - "Blood Sister"
3137 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
February - March, 2007

LADIES ONLY-Art & Music Video Festival
IMVF and 1/ 2 A Tart/Surly Girl Productions in association with JEM Gallery presents
International Women's Day
Anza Club- 8th & Ontario,Vancouver BC
March 2007

The White Elephant Show
The White Elephant Show - Group Show
Newport Beach, CA
December 2006

thinkspace
"PICKS OF THE HARVEST: BATCH THREE" - Group Show
Los Angeles, CA
Sept - October 2006

true hate art gallery
XXX - Group Show
La Rochelle, France
July 2006

Black Maria Gallery
Under the Table - Group Show
Los Angeles, CA
July 2006

White Walls Gallery
Well Hung - Group Show
San Francisco, CA
July 2006

MF Gallery
GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!
New York, N.Y.
Spring 2006

Anno Domini
Flies in the Buttermilk - Solo Show
Spring, 2006
San Jose, CA

MF Gallery
Toy Show 2005
New York, N.Y.
December 2005

Anno Domini
Fresh Produce
December, 2005
San Jose, CA

Burning Man Funhouse
Psych Show Freaks
August 29th through September 4th 2005
Black Rock City, NV

Pawnbroker Gallery
Red Motives
March 10th through April 5th, 2005
San Francisco, CA

Varnish Fine Art
"Misfit Toys"
San Francisco, CA
Dec. 2 - Jan 2, 2004

Anno Domini
Fresh Produce 04
San Jose, CA
Dec 3 - Jan 3, 2004

MF Gallery
TOY SHOW 2004
New York, N.Y.
November 6 - December 12, 2004

Crisis Theater
Panty Waste / ArtSF
San Francisco, CA
December 4, 2004

Whitney Young Mansion
Wild Banana Project Group show
"International Underground"
San Francisco, CA
Aug - Sept. 2004

OnSix Gallery
Juxtapoz Group show : "Submission"
San Francisco, CA
Aug. 2004

Balazo Gallery
"Creepshow"
San Francisco, CA
Feb. 2004

Copro Nason Gallery
Group show 'From your Valentine'
Culver City, CA
Feb. 2004

White Lions
Solo Show
Echo Park, Los Angeles
Nov. 2003

Whitney Young Mansion
Group Show
San Francisco, CA
Oct. 2003

Start Soma Gallery
"Propaganda" - Group Show
San Francisco, CA
May 2003

Haggis Gallery
Solo Show
San Francisco
Feb. 2003

Somarts Gallery
"Black Market" - Group Show
San Francisco
Dec. 2002

Whitney Young Cultural Center Mansion
"Small Luxuries" - Group Show
San Francisco
Dec. 2002

Southern Exposure Gallery
"Post Postcard" - Group Show
San Francisco
June 2002