Jennie Mejan

Jennie Mejan
Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA

STATEMENT

Most of my work to this point has been like making rubbings—pressing the texture of my internal landscape onto paper. I try to give authentic shape to feelings by following intuitive choices about weight, balance, and the emotional temperature of the fragments I have on hand. For me, concrete reality does not hold exclusive rights to what is real; the invisible is equally, if not more, present. That unseen dimension shapes my pieces, letting them settle between the familiar and the surreal. Recently, my focus has shifted from illustrating personal experience to zooming out a few layers—giving the center some privacy and looking instead at what stirs around it. Before my paper collage work, my efforts were focused on poetry, photography, and digital collage.

BIO

Jennie Mejan works primarily in paper collage with pre-1970 ephemera, creating emotionally resonant compositions where fragmented or concealed images slip between the real and the surreal. Her work often holds a quiet tension between tenderness and fracture. Based in Winston Salem, North Carolina, she has been recognized for three consecutive years in Contemporary Collage Magazine’s annual awards—with two honorable mentions and a third-place finish. Her work has appeared in Toombes and Drimspace art journals, and in the collections Omnia Vincit Amor (Italian Collage Collective), Surrealist Dreams 2021, the Paris Collage Collective Yearbook, and Sleeping with Art: The Art of Car(d)s (Hedsor House, 2022). She was also highlighted in Collé newsletter’s For Your Viewing Pleasure, Issue 104 (2025).

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