Contact via Social Media:
@JenniferWester / @ARTBseries
Wester is an interdisciplinary artist working in metal, paint, light, audio, ink, and performance mediums. She often explores line as object and language as well as algorithmic actions. Her work visually embraces chaos while often being created in a very orderly manner. She often composes work with and about residues and indexes of body, movement, and processes. Highlights in Wester’s career as an emerging artist have been her performance and videographic works shown at the SOLUNA Festival in 2018 and the CICA Museum in 2019, grants with the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs in 2019 for her line and action paper art experiences, and receiving a Meadows Award from Southern Methodist University in 2019 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art.
Based out of Dallas, Texas
“In Texas there was only the horizon she craved.” ~Joan Didion
Yale University B.A. | Computing and the Arts | 2016
Southern Methodist University | M.F.A. 2019-2021
Presence. Awareness. Agency. These are the words I’m most interested in as of late. My practice centers itself in the desire to bring people to the now of a moment. And in that now, I seek to engage a breathe of possibilities too long absent, if ever before present, in the viewers conscience. I want to spark a sense of agency and affirming engagement with the visual and spatial world…so strong that it ripples outward long after.
individual areas in Wester’s interdisciplinary arts practice and projects are addressed on their respective pages on this site.
Upcoming Shows/Installs/Exhibits/Festivals:
- Paper Arts
- Building Ervay St. for Memory | ARTB
- ARTB | Sept. 29, Oct. 27, Nov. 17, Dec. 22 | Historic | West Dallas, Texas
- ARTB with West Branch Dallas Public Library | Residency | Dallas, TX
- ARTB at Anita Martinez Rec. Center | Residency | Dallas, Tx
- ARTB at Noël Marche with Alliance France | Dallas Intl. School | Dallas, TX
- ARTB | Mesquite Arts Center | Feb. 1 | Mesquite, TX
- Performance Work
- Art Confessional | Meadows Museum | Jan. 9 | University Park, TX
- Group Shows
- Semester End Open Studios and Reviews | SMU | University Park, TX
- Solo Shows
- Cutting Loops (solo show) | Jan. 6 – Feb. 27, 2020 | Mesquite Arts Center | Mesquite, TX | North America
- Seeing Time (Solo Show)| March 3 – 25, 2020 | Angelina College ACA Gallery | Lufkin, Texas | North America
Awards/Grants:
- Jones Fund and Zelle Fund Grant | Fall 2019
- Doolin Family Art Material Fund Grant | Fall 2019
- Office of Cultural Affairs Arts Activate 2020 Grant | Dallas, TX
- Meadows Award | Southern Methodist University | 2019 – 2021
- MFA Fellowship | Southern Methodist University | 2019 – 2021
- Office of Cultural Affairs Cultural Vitaliy Program Grant | Dallas, TX | 2019
- Glasstire Burning Man Artist Ticket & Stipend | 2017
Recent Exhibitions/Installations/Shows:
- Paper Arts
- ARTB at Full City Rooster for Cedars Open Studios 2019 | Nov. | Dallas, TX
- ARTB with COS | Deep Ellum Creative Market with Decent Collective | Dallas, TX
- ARTB with COS | Mid-Autumn Moon Festival | Dallas, TX
- ARTB with COS at NNO | Oct. 1 | Dallas, TX
- ARTB with Seniors | Love For Kids | Sept. 25 | West Dallas Multipurpose Center | Dallas, TX
- Park(ing) Day | Sept. 20, 2019 | Dallas, TX
- ARTB Kids Create Center | The Other Art Fair | Sept. 19-22, 2019 | Dallas, TX
- ARTB at Private School Preview | ArborCreek Montessori Booth | Sept. 8 from 2-4p | Greenhill School | Dallas, TX
- Remembering the Ambassador | Four Corners Brewery | Aug. 21 | Dallas, TX
- ARTB | Aug. 18 | Back to School Bfast with Historic | Kidd Springs Rec. Center | Dallas, Texas
- THIS city in your hands | Dallas OCA CVP Project | #DallasInYourHands Spring 2019 | West Dallas, TX | North America
- Rockin’ Rapsody Downtown Fever | April 19, 2019 | Mesquite, TX | North America
- Performance Work
- Cedars Open Studios | Nov. 23, 2019 | Full City Rooster | Dallas, TX
- Art Confessional #1(01) | Meadows Museum | Sept. 20,2019 | Dallas, TX | North America
- Art Aide Expo 2019 | June 15, 2019 | Fort Worth Community Arts Center | TX | North America
- Kuzu Kaleidoscope Sound + Vision | Oct. 4, 2018 | Denton, TX | North America
- The Ground Floor Project | Aug. 17, 2018 | The Balancing Connection | Dallas, TX | North America
- The Refuge | Moving Energies | Dallas, TX | North America
- Over the Bridge Summer Solstice ArtSpot | June 23, 2018 | Dallas, TX | North America
- SOLUNA 2018 | ‘Breaking Shadows’ | Dallas, TX | North America
- ArtExperience Confessional V.1 Installation | Innovation Italia | Venice, Italy | Europe
- Sculpture Work
- Chillnaughty | Nov. 16 | Boedecker Space | Cedars Union X SMU | Dallas, TX
- The Other Art Fair | Saatchi Art | Sept. 19-22, 2019 | Dallas, TX
- SCULPTURE – a Celebration of Art on Henderson | Sept. 7 – Sept. 30 | Dallas, TX
- N.E.R. | Burning Man 2019 | Aug. 22-Sept. 2 | BRC | North America
- Identity | ArtCon Seed | June 1, 2019 | Life in Deep Ellum, Dallas, TX | North America
- Art on Henderson 2019 Collection | 2323 Henderson Ave. | Dallas, Texas | North America
- LUCKopalooza | LUCK Dallas | Apr. 14, 2019 | West Dallas, Texas | North America
- COLOR. | March 2019 | Maddrey PLLC | Bank of America Plaza | Downtown Dallas, TX | North America
- Yayden Pop | Feb. 23, 2019 | Yayden Art Pop-Up Exhibition | Design District, Dallas, TX | North America
- LUCK Dallas | Dallas, TX | North America
- Burning Man 2018| Breaking Shadows V2 | Black Rock City, NV | North America
- ArtCon 12 | Dallas, TX | North America
- Local Brew & Press | Dallas, TX | North America
- Drugstore Cowboy | Dallas, TX | North America
- Life in Deep Ellum | entitled: Microgallery | Dallas, TX | North America
- Life in Deep Ellum | entitled: Mater’ium | Dallas, TX | North America
- Yale Art School Green Gallery| entitled: Play | New Haven, CT | North America
- Yale Art School Green Gallery | entitled: Studio | New Haven, CT | North America
- Yale 36 Edgewood Sculpture Building/Gallery | entitled: XYTheta | New Haven, CT | North America
- Video / Projection Work
- Assembly | July 27 – Sept. 1 | The MAC | Dallas, TX
- CICA Museum | May 9-26, 2019 | Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | Asia
- AURORA 2018 | Oct. 30 – Nov. 4, 2018 | Samuel-Lynn Gallery | Dallas, Texas | North America
- Kuzu Kaleidoscope Sound + Vision | Oct. 4, 2018 | Denton, TX | North America
- Contemporary Skating Festival Berlin 2018 | SoundSkate Viewing | Berlin, Germany | Europe
- SEA(S) 2018 | SoundSkate Viewing | Kefalonia, Greece | Europe
- SOLUNA 2018 | ‘Breaking Shadows’ | Dallas, TX | North America
- Media Arts Festival 2017 | Leeuwarden, Netherlands | Europe
- Painting Work
- The Fall Thing | Sept. 28 | EKPNA | Dallas, TX
- The Other Art Fair | Saatchi Art | Sept. 19-22, 2019 | Dallas, TX
- World of Art | June 29, 2019 | Arlington, TX | North America
- Art Con 14 | Nov. 10, 2018 | Dallas, TX | North America
- Conception Art at BrewFest 2018 | Sept. 8 | Dallas, TX | North America
- Art Con Revolution | Dallas, TX | North America
- Conception Arts 2018 | Dallas, TX | North America
- Artcon 13 | Dallas, TX | North America
- ArtWalk West 2017 | Dallas, TX | North America
- Burning Man, 2017 | Black Rock City, NV | North America
- Drugstore Cowboy | Dallas, TX | North America
- Printmaking Work
- Holiday Presence | Dec. 6 – Dec. 23, 2018 | Kettle Art | Dallas, TX | North America
- Outlast Youth Fundraiser | Kettle Art Gallery | Oct. 25, 2018 | Deep Ellum District, Dallas, Texas | North America
- Printmaking, Collage, Assemblage Show | IAA | Irving, TX | North America
- Drawing / Drafting Work
- WHISTLE | Greece | Europe
- Kinderboekje Rotterdam | Fall 2018 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | Europe
- Phobias by ArtCon | Dallas, TX | North America
- Photography
- Environment Documenta by LoosenArt | MillePiani | Rome, Italy | Europe
Additional Information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Wester
https://medium.com/italia-innovation/meet-an-innovator-jenn-wester-5ea4b423850e#.nt96mudzw