Jeanette Strezinski

Jeanette Strezinski
Ferndale, Michigan, USA

STATEMENT

This series of photomontages portrays architectural and landscape scenes reminiscent of everyday happenings. By combining print media, multimedia processes, and image fragments taken from my own photography, I create alternative worlds with futuristic narratives depicting both past and present events. I strive to create unified, seamless photomontages that invite the viewer to explore, discover, and question. In the course of my work, I often find dated articles that closely mirror current events, stark reminders of how history often repeats in a continuous loop of cultural and social conditions with unresolved issues, serving to underscore just how challenging the struggles can be. In our current times of uneasy rest, where heightened threats to our democracy and injustices throughout the world are a daily occurrence brought to our attention nonstop, the power of art can be a catalyst to spread awareness, action, and hope. In its broadest sense, art can serve as a voice of reason to those willing to listen, but mostly, it provides some measure of respite and equanimity to those who create it.

BIO

Jeamette Strezinski is a mixed media artist who lives and works in the Detroit area. She was the founder and director of Detroit Industrial Projects, a gallery located in the Russell Industrial Center, from 2007 to 2014. Strezinski has exhibited at the Detroit Artist Market (Detroit, Michigan), Galerie Camille (Detroit, Michigan), the Gillespie Gallery (George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia), the Kresge Art Museum (East Lansing, Michigan), Detroit Contemporary (Detroit, Michigan), the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center (Birmingham, Michigan), and the Neal Davis Gallery (Royal Oak, Michigan). She earned a BFA from Michigan State University and currently has a studio in Highland Park, Michigan.

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(248) 840-5117
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