ARTIST STATEMENT
My work challenges the lines we draw between self and other. Whenever a horizon marks a division, I disrupt it. The result is a series of richly layered, abstracted landscapes. Because I’m also a creative writer, asemic writing often appears in my visual work to represent the stories we tell — both true and false — about who we are and what we mean by “we.” The more we understand, the fewer walls we build.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jenn Hollmeyer grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and now paints and writes in Downers Grove, Illinois. She has exhibited and sold paintings in Illinois, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. She created the cover art for her critically acclaimed short story collection, Orders of Protection, which won the 2019 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and was published by University of North Texas Press. She studied journalism and studio art at UNC-Chapel Hill, and she holds an MFA in creative writing and literature from Bennington College.
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