Jenny Brillhart
(Born 1972, Canterbury, New Hampshire)

Bio
Jenny Brillhart’s studio practice often begins by organizing objects and imagery within found and created spaces. She poses subjects that might be thought of as nothing into something—objectifying the overlooked. Her painting routine, like the arranging of objects, is a building process; material, repetitive and deliberate. The paintings absorb the geometry of her findings in the architecture from where they arise. Playing with space, matter, light, time and function, Jenny’s paintings address philosophical issues of perception, beauty, and experience. Jenny Brillhart was born in 1972, to a crafty mother and an engineering father in Canterbury, New Hampshire. Her family lived nearby a historic Shaker Village, where she learned the idea that function + process (can) = beauty. She graduated with a BA from Smith College, then studied at the Art Students’ League in New York, and received an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Jenny recently participated in group or solo shows at The Zillman Museum, Bangor Maine; Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, Florida, the CMCA, Rockland, Maine; the deCordova Museum, Lincoln Ma.; the History Museum, Miami, Florida; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden Museum, Germany; PAMM, Dimensions Variable and Locust Projects all in Miami, Florida, as well as with her representing galleries: Kuckei + Kuckei in Berlin, Germany, Emerson Dorsch in Miami, FL and Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, Maine. Jenny lives and works in Blue Hill, Maine.

Website
https://www.jbrillhart.com/