ARTIST STATEMENT
SUPPORT: The garment industry is one of the greatest waste producers on Earth. Unrealistic social and beauty standards highlight the gaze of institutional sexism. In SUPPORT, bras are collectively disconnected together rejecting the need to be harnessed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jenny E. Balisle earned a B.A. in Art and Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a M.F.A. from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. Exhibits include the de Young Museum Artist-in-Residence, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago Cultural Center, Korean Cultural Center, Harvard University, Farmington Museum, Museu Brasileiro São Paulo, and Shanghai Oil Painting & Sculpture Institute Art Museum.
Her work has been featured in such publications as The Huffington Post, WOMENCINEMAKERS, A5 Magazine, ZYZZYVA, The Drum Literary Magazine, and Sculptural Pursuits Magazine. Public art includes The Cube Art Project, Hearts in San Francisco, and South San Francisco Utility Box Mural Project.
Balisle works as an artist, advocate, curator, administrator, writer, and instructor.
© Jenny E. Balisle