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Love Your Mother
Jennie Thwing
“Love your Mother” is an installation that includes felt sculpture, costumes and animation. It paints a picture of the earth as an eternal source of natural resources and an object of desire. The work is intended to capture the elation, frenzy and carnage caused by our love affair with the earth. Each work in the show represents a part of nature’s bounty, fragility and awareness.
Biography
Jennie Thwing is a New York based artist, animator and educator. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art and her MFA from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She teaches time-based media at SUNY Farmingdale State College. She has had solo exhibitions at Grizzly Grizzly, Local Project, Chashama Space to Present, the Arlington Arts Center, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, The Mainline Art Center, Soho 20 Gallery, School 33, Fleisher Art Memorial Dene M. Locheim Gallery, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Studio 34 and 20.20. She has curated numerous multidisciplinary exhibitions and attended residencies in the US, Norway, New Zealand, and Canada. She has received numerous awards including the 2014 Meyer Family Award for Contemporary Art; an Environmental Art Project Grant at the Schuylkill Center; a 2013 - 15’ Center for Emerging Artists Fellowship; a 2014 SPARC Artist in Residence grant; and a 2014 & 2019 Queens Arts Fund Grant.
My goal as an artist is to process and understand the human experience through the creation of art. Using animation, sculpture and installation I create imaginary narratives that reference the confusing world we live in. All of my work revolves around the natural world and involves the anthropomorphism of nature, refuse, and human environments. My work often mixes personal history, social/environmental causes, the news stream and popular culture.
Love Your Mother animation
“Love Your Mother” is an installation that includes sculpture and animation. It paints a picture of the earth as an eternal source of natural resources The animation begins with lush natural imagery and sound (bubbling rivers and swimming fish.) The animation evolves into a cacophony of natural and man-made sounds and images (falling trees, human voices, oils drills, and rock slides,) and ends with an erratic dance of environmental destruction.
