Jana Purington

Jana Purington
Kailua, Hawaii, USA

STATEMENT

Made from a collection of magazines that I’ve been adding to for the last decade, my collages allow me to satisfy the part of my brain that needs to put pieces together. They’re little narratives – sometimes one-liners in a play with composition, sometimes short anecdotes about presentations of food, femininity, and luxury in print media. Always, they come from an impulse to play.

BIO

Jana Purington is a writer, collage, and textile artist from Kailua, Hawaii. In 2021, she received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in Boston and stayed at the university for an additional year as the Post Graduate Curatorial Fellow. Her fibers and written work typically deal with themes of self, body, intimacy, and home; one of her essays on these subjects, “The Parasite,” was published in Booth Magazine and nominated for the Best of the Web Award in 2022. In her collages, she explores depictions and distortions of “paradise,” femininity, and luxury. She’s exhibited in Portland, Boston, Honolulu, and Kailua.

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