Meet 2022-2024 Resident Artist Jenna Maurice!
Jenna Maurice is an artist working in photography, video, and performance, who lives and works in Denver, CO.
Her younger years were spent in Los Angeles until her family moved to Tennessee where she was exposed to the vast differences of culture that this country has to offer. She was homeschooled until she went to college, and loved having a broad learning environment with tons of freedom.
She received her BFA in Photography from Watkins College of Art (a small private art school in Nashville, TN), and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices from the University of Colorado at Boulder (where the art department was bigger than her entire undergraduate college).
Her work deals with ideas concerning relationships (with herself, others, the past, the landscape, and objects), non-verbal communication, and the language of the complicated human experience.
Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including exhibitions at Material Art Fair in Mexico City, La Générale in Paris France, Satellite Art Show in Miami, Fl, LivingGallery in Lecce Italy, Festival of Moving Images in Winnipeg, Canada, Satellite at SXSW in Austin, TX, and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, CO.
Watch the video of Jenna in her RedLine studio below to learn more about her and her practice!
"My name is Jenna Maurice, and I am an artist that works with photography, video, and performance. I'm really interested in relationships, whether they be with me and other people, other people, people and the landscape.
"I'm also really interested in aspects of communication that are non-verbal. I do a lot of work with non-verbal communication. I am fascinated by the idea that about 85% of the way that we communicate is non-verbal, and so it really makes me want to explore what are all of these ways that we communicate. "
So a lot of my work has to do with both those ideas of communication and also relationships. I think that's the main umbrella here.
"I've been working on a series of lumen prints. It's kind of an alternative photographic process where you take black and white darkroom paper and take it out into the light, which is a no-no in the darkroom world.
"So you take it out and you put objects onto it and put it out into the sun and make a print that way. It's called contact print. And this process is so magical to me because it's a way for the sun to tell you something about what is inside of the thing that you are making a photograph of.
"It's kind of a way for me to have a special relationship with the sun that's kind of telling me secrets and showing me the interiors of things. And in that way, I think about it in relationship.
"I'm also a performance artist, and the type of performance art that I usually do is performance that is specifically for video in a specific part of the world or in specific landscape. "
A lot of my performance work has to do with a relationship or building a relationship with the landscape and kind trying to see how can a human have a meaningful relationship with the landscape that doesn't speak the language that you speak? So what are these non-verbal things that I can do with the landscape?
"I'm the kind of person that just wants to make things happen, and I want to see a really thriving art community where I live. And RedLine seems to be one of the hubs where that happens.
"I'm super interested in being a part of a community that then is growing and kind of reverberating outwards. And I also want to grow and be challenged and within my studio practice, be challenged to make new work and have new ideas and just being in a space with other people does that. So I'm super excited about that, about RedLine."
Meet Resident Artist Laura Conway
Laura Conway is a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist. She started making art in the Denver DIY scenes, booking underground music shows, hosting art galleries in her punk house, and embarking on “film tours.”
Conway carries the ethos and esthetics she took from underground music into her current practice. Currently she creates politically grounded works that span genre and medium, using surrealism and a sense of play to contemplate life in late stage capitalism.
Watch the video of Laura in her RedLine studio below to learn more about her and her practice >
