ARTIST STATEMENT
Taking double-exposure photographs, incorporating far-away views and close-ups of plants and landscapes in one frame, allows me to “connect with place.” Working this way allows me to show multiple images in one view. I take the photographs using a film camera and have the negatives scanned so I can print them on tissue paper. The subject matter are natural scenes from my hikes in the fields and the prairies. These mixed-media paintings are created by embedding the photographs printed on tissue paper in the beeswax paint as collage. The molten paint is applied under and above the photo as a collage layer and are at once a painting and a photograph. These mixed-media works have the luminosity of beeswax while maintaining the graphic nature of photography.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Reeb received a BFA degree in Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MCAD, where she instructed printmaking for over 9 years.
Jodi has been a full-time working artist creating paintings and sculpture and a teacher in Minneapolis for over 30 years. She has exhibited throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, Netherlands and Ireland. She has received support for her work through the Minnesota State Arts Grants in 2026, 2021 and 2018. Reeb has been awarded numerous artist residencies including Hinge Arts, MN, North Dakota Museum of Arts, and Vermont Art Center. Her work is in many residential and corporate collections including Google Headquarters, NY, United HealthCare Group Headquarters, DC, Dain and Rauscher, PA, University of Minnesota, CBS Conservatory, and Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.
She is a CORE teaching artist for R&F Handmade Paints, an Arts Ambassador for Ampersand Art panels, and a teaching artist for Silverbrush, Ltd.
© Jodi Reeb