First Friday Artist Series
First Friday with Jennifer Clifton
Description
Join us for a continuation of our First Friday artists series! For our April artist we are welcoming to the shop Jennifer Clifton! Her pieces will be hanging in the green room and around the shop for the month of April.
Enjoy First Friday with us, grab a glass from the bar, and dinner! As we'll be hosting Françoise Le Calvez of Chateau Coupe Roses from the south of France for a free tasting and bar takeover, along with True North Poutine Food truck!
From the Artist: My art presents oppositions—the natural against the synthetic, the individual against the modern hum, independence against the energy of regularity, action against thought, self-generated female power against an inescapable yet still attractive backdrop, past against present. My figurative 2D work—paintings and pencil drawings with wallpaper—present subjects inspired by photos from the vaudeville era and elsewhere in the last century, or invented, surrounded by mod wallpaper or painted patterns. Color is unashamed, defiance is pleasure, with an edge of surreal juxtaposition. The backgrounds suggest a struggle with an exterior but can also depict the interior energy of the central figure—viewers can decide the balance.