Jenny Hampe
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Jenny Hampe STATEMENT There are no limitations as to materials when it comes to my art, as I have worked extensively with textiles, as well as some wood and metal. But my creations seem to be inclined at present towards the small scale and two dimensional, due to a life involving much travel, where I must carry most of my supplies upon my back. I am particularly drawn to old photographs, advertisements, and scraps of wallpaper. But I have never excluded paint and coloured pencil in my work, and snippets of Swedish calico and embroidery have also been known to appear. Postage stamps are the icing on the cake; and flailing my precious labours-of-love into the unknown abyss of a postbox is, to me, the ultimate surrender, never being certain that my creations will even reach their intended recipient. I live on hope and faith. BIO Although I am American and grew up just outside of New York City, I tried to escape my fate as an artist by running away to a non-electrified mountain farm in the hinterlands of Norway, where I have lived for 22 years, milking goats, making cheese, spinning, and weaving, churning butter, and so forth. But the extreme isolation got to me after a while, and I began to reach out to the world via long, rambling, illustrated letters enclosed in highly decorated envelopes. My work was somehow found and in 2014 exhibited at Kerry Schuss Art in New York City, whereupon Roberta Smith of The New York Times hailed me “a new discovery”. To me life is one endless collage of the soul, and as long as I live my work shall reflect this imminent reality. Now dividing my time between the Norwegian hinterlands and New York City, my art is reflecting urban as well as rural influences. ARTIST CONTACT (802) 490-0544 IMAGES
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