Jana Flynn
Carl Jung meets landscape in artist Jana Flynn.
Through the use of mixed media including collage,
paint, thread and tea leaves, Flynn intermingles
spiritual and philosophical ideologies to create
miniature abstractions of vast panoramic settings
as though geological backdrops to a lucid dream.
Flynn’s organic approach lends viewers an introspective
look into her world that generates both a
feeling of boundlessness as well as gravity. She
has described her process as a fundamental part of
her pieces. “It is not only the investigation that truly
excites me, but construction as well. To mend, piece
together, patch, cobble, cure, cultivate where nothing
was before is an integral part of my process.”
Flynn’s subject matter draws from her personal
experiences and reveals her abiding interest in psychology
and philosophy. Her pieces reflect a disillusioned
and at times eerie environment constructed
from small pieces that only loosely create a whole.
These vacant settings of only one or two seemingly
out of place objects form a surreal scene that might
only exist in dreams. However fantastical these
mineral toned terrains, they are representations of
Flynn’s own imagination, or what she describes as
“Removing myself from my current environment to
enter a space where I have complete power…”
Born in 1980, Flynn studied painting, drawing
and ceramics at San Francisco State University
where she earned a BFA in 2003. She is currently
attending Parsons The New School where she
will receive a MFA in Visual Arts in the spring of
2009. Flynn’s work has been showcased in various
galleries in California and New York and has been
presented at art fairs such as Pulse, NY. Flynn has
been published in various newspapers as well as
Ethsix Magazine.
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