Art, Jennifer Scott,

Art Sunday; Jennifer Scott

Pictures and information from


http://www.jenniferscottartist.com/statement.htmI found this ladies work while looking for a picture of boys playing.
The paintings in that particular series are fun, summery and joyful. Some of her other work is much darker,
Her  2007 series focuses on water disasters and the human figure, in particular the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane  Katrina, that devastated so many lives.
She writes; 'I remember feeling like a spectator watching the helpless bodies of people, animals and the landscape get washed away'

She held a solo exhibition at
the Human Thread Center November 2010 in Chicago.

 Artist Statement about this exhibition;

‘’This series of paintings and collages respond to lynching postcards that were mailed around the country during the Jim Crow Era as souvenirs. Thousands upon thousands of African Americans were lynched between the 1880s and the Second World War. Over the years, I have thought about what I did not see in the postcards, primarily the family members left behind to take down the victim, to mourn and bury their remains if there was enough left to bury.’’ read more about the project here.
http://www.humanthread.net/
When I first saw her work I thought I read that she was a Scottish Artist, now I realize she is American. She has studied, worked, exhibited and lectured all over America. She does today what Goya and Hogarth did in the past. Her social commentary is powerful regardless of subject matter,  it mirrors natural disasters, mans inhumanity to man and  street children playing in the sun all with the same integrity and honesty. It is all beautifully painted. Her work is fresh, alive and very real. I am so very glad I found this ladies work.

This is called 'The Impossible',

delete reply bjorbo wrote on Jul 10, '11 Powerful and wonderful! Thanks so much! http://bjorbo.multiply.com/journal/item/345/Art_Sunday_Queen_Califia_and_Her_Native_Californians

delete reply acousticeagle wrote on Jul 10, '11 Really interesting colour palatte, very visually exciting. Dark subject matter, indeed. I was taking a very good look at how the artist rendered the water in the 8th one down (body face down in water).

delete reply pestep55 wrote on Jul 10, '11 These scream summer to me /:-)

delete reply greenwytch wrote on Jul 10, '11 those are really neat, and quite a varied group of subject matter in these paintings.

delete reply brendainmad wrote on Jul 10, '11 Very nice work even though some of her paintings depict scenes that we like to avoid seeing. Photographers capture heartbreaking situations like this so why shouldn't an artist paint them?

delete reply nemo4sun wrote on Jul 10, '11, edited on Jul 10, '11 wow! beautifull and powerfull :)

delete reply mitchylr wrote on Jul 10, '11 A very good artist, she has what I call a 'documentary' style.

delete reply artprevails wrote on Jul 10, '11 Important art, I would say. Thanks again for sharing such works.

delete reply starfishred wrote on Jul 10, '11 very interesting loretta

delete reply bennett1 wrote on Jul 9, '11 As social commentary, her work is very powerful.