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You can contact me at jennybrd@yahoo.com if you would like to receive email for upcoming shows.
My name is Jennybird Alcantara, I am a artist living in San Francisco CA. I received my BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.. The majority of my work is oil paintings on wood but I also create art dolls inspired by my paintings. My work has at its core a narrative; I like to explore the complex interconnectedness of opposites as seen through the prism of myth, fable and fantasy. I use the symbolism of duality to explore the connection of life and death, as well as the relationship between the beauty and cruelness of nature, that of the natural world as well as human and animal nature. The anthropomorphic qualities in my characters show the relationship of the central figure to the world she inhabits.
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, Victorian customs, 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
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Treacherous Gardens
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Jennybird Alcantara's Treacherous Gardens solo exhibit of paintings explores "the garden of the mind" and its vast, beautiful landscape filled with inherent pitfalls. Duality, water themes, dreams and nightmares figure prominently in this series of detailed fantasies in oil and acrylic on panel.
"I have always been a daydreamer," says Jennybird, "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 natural world and freaks of nature, melancholy...broken dolls and objects out of place." With a narrative at its core, Alcantara's minutely detailed paintings are filled with objects that possess un-borrowed symbolism contained within each piece and within the series. The artist's love of animals and their instincts is seen and felt in her use of folklore and metaphor. Dual natures addressing the veils between human-animal, internal-external, and life-death embody the characters central to each work of art. Treacherous Gardens draws the viewer deeper into a world both strange and beautiful, guided by a generous hand.
Jen Rogers - Varnish Fineart Gallery
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Whaleless
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PAST SHOWS
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Stuff This - 2nd Annual Plush Show
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Miami Art Basel - KNOW Exhibition - Group Show
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September - October 2008
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
September 2008
Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
September 2008
A Bitchin' Space, Sacramento, CA
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La Rochelle, France
September 2006
August - September 2008
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
April 2008
Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles, CA
January 2008
March 2008
Vancouver BC, Canada
February 2008
MF Gallery, NY, NY
February 2008
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
November - December 2007
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
November 2007
Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, CA
November - December 2007
Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
September 8th, 2007
Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL
July 07
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
April 7, 07
Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
3137 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
February - March, 2007
International Women's Day
Anza Club- 8th & Ontario,Vancouver BC
March 2007
Newport Beach, CA
December 2006
Los Angeles, CA
Sept - October 2006
La Rochelle, France
July 2006
Los Angeles, CA
July 2006
San Francisco, CA
July 2006
New York, N.Y.
Spring 2006
Spring, 2006
San Jose, CA
New York, N.Y.
December 2005
December, 2005
San Jose, CA
August 29th through September 4th 2005
Black Rock City, NV
March 10th through April 5th, 2005
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA
Dec. 2 - Jan 2, 2004
San Jose, CA
Dec 3 - Jan 3, 2004
New York, N.Y.
November 6 - December 12, 2004
San Francisco, CA
December 4, 2004
"International Underground"
San Francisco, CA
Aug - Sept. 2004
San Francisco, CA
Aug. 2004
San Francisco, CA
Feb. 2004
Culver City, CA
Feb. 2004
Echo Park, Los Angeles
Nov. 2003
San Francisco, CA
Oct. 2003
San Francisco, CA
May 2003
San Francisco
Feb. 2003
San Francisco
Dec. 2002
San Francisco
Dec. 2002
San Francisco
June 2002
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