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JENNIFER MAY REILAND
United States, 1989
Jennifer May Reiland's work is based on a religious childhood in Texas where she attended a Southern Baptist school that taught that the end times were near. Growing up she became obsessed with Catholic art that united piety, eroticism and violence in the same image.
While studying at Cooper Union, Jennifer was drawn to the themes expressed in medieval narrative art. From there she became interested in the relationship between figuration, miniature and devotional. Prompted by the crowd scenes of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance created by Heironymous Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, she began to explore the tradition of miniaturization of images and amplification of detail in the context of paintings of religious symbolism. By studying works such as The Garden of Earthly Delights and The Triumph of Death, he came to see how the vortexes of the figures were able to create anxiety and contemplation in the viewer.
Narratives of physical sacrifice are a frequent theme in Jennifer May Reiland's work but there is also a latent corporeality in her work. Although the end product of her process is a painting, there is a resistance-based performative aspect to the creation of the works that is inspired by the work of feminist artists such as Ana Mendieta. With each new work, Jennifer creates new parameters related to the size of the piece, the number of figures and the level of detail.
In addition to Cooper Union in New York City (2011) he attended the Universitat de Barcelona (Facultat of Belles Arts). Her work has been shown internationally, including shows at The Drawing Center in New York and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris. She has completed a residency in Paris at the Fondation des Etats-Unis where she received the Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowship (2012 - 2013), and was chosen as an artist in residence for the Sharpe-Walentas Space Programme. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Open Sessions at the Drawing Center in Soho, NY.
Lives and works in New York City.
