Jen Williams Blogtag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2011:/news//12011-12-09T18:00:34ZMovable Type 4.37shout out from Lenscratchtag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2011:/news//1.452011-12-09T17:50:08Z2011-12-09T18:00:34ZThanks Aline Smithson, creator of Lenscratch for featuring untitled #10 in a recent post. An alternate take on that image. I still can't decide which version will make the final exhibition cut....Jen Williams
untitled #10 in a recent post.
An alternate take on that image. I still can't decide which version will make the final exhibition cut.
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modern burltag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2011:/news//1.442011-11-04T04:51:58Z2011-11-04T04:55:53ZComing soon. A seasonal collaboration featuring hand crafted goods from near and further afield. Visit modern burl online....Jen Williams
modern burl online.
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brain, childtag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2011:/news//1.412011-06-09T05:59:56Z2011-06-09T06:04:23ZHere's a sneak peek at the Summer 2011 issue of Brain, Child Magazine, cover by yours truly. Look for it at a news stand near you any day now....Jen Williams
Brain, Child Magazine, cover by yours truly. Look for it at a news stand near you any day now.
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wolf at the doortag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2011:/news//1.402011-05-26T16:59:50Z2011-06-09T06:09:48ZWolves are complicated. They are terrifying. Maligned. Harbingers from some ancient place. I'm good with wolves - one came to me in a dream when I was in a dark place. That's not the case for everyone though. I keep...Jen Williams
I keep the wolf from the door
But he calls me up
Calls me on the phone
Tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up
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CONTACTtag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2011:/news//1.392011-04-21T06:57:45Z2011-04-30T18:55:32ZThree pieces from "we keep it all in" will be showing at the Launch Projects Gallery's Transplanted exhibit in conjunction with the CONTACT photography festival. Billed as the largest photography festival anywhere, CONTACT exhibitions are hosted by venues throughout Toronto...Jen Williams
we keep it all in" will be showing at the Launch Projects Gallery's Transplanted exhibit in conjunction with the CONTACT photography festival. Billed as the largest photography festival anywhere, CONTACT exhibitions are hosted by venues throughout Toronto in the month of May. I was thrilled to be selected to participate.
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center forwardtag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2011:/news//1.382011-03-12T15:59:36Z2011-04-30T18:52:54ZI'm getting ready to send untitled #4 down to the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado for the Center Forward exhibition running May 6 - June 11. Think it's going to be a really dynamic show. If you're in...Jen Williams
untitled #4 down to the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado for the Center Forward exhibition running May 6 - June 11. Think it's going to be a really dynamic show. If you're in Fort Collins, check it out in person, or see it online.
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interiorstag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2011:/news//1.362011-02-22T18:42:05Z2011-02-22T18:45:39Zand so it continues...Jen Williams
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it has begantag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2011:/news//1.342011-02-02T01:19:22Z2011-02-02T01:24:55ZAn out take from my new series "We keep it all in." Don't touch that dial!...Jen Williams
We keep it all in." Don't touch that dial!
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out-takes: man & beasttag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2010:/news//1.332010-05-26T17:39:00Z2010-05-26T17:48:54ZLately I've been looking back through old work to help get me kick started to begin something new. I came across these earlier attempts at a Big Love style series I made around the time the equal marriage law debate...Jen Williams
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New Worktag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2010:/news//1.322010-02-06T22:33:56Z2010-04-03T16:11:49ZStellan b. 12.24.09 Not to be confused with...Jen Williams
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studio updatetag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2009:/news//1.312009-09-27T20:32:55Z2009-09-27T20:59:46ZThere hasn't been a lot of activity in my studio these past few months, I'm afraid to admit. This isn't to say I haven't been working on anything new. In addition preparing for the anticipated yet apprehensive arrival of my...Jen Williams
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take twotag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2009:/news//1.302009-04-06T18:50:10Z2009-04-06T18:59:17ZSeems I'm finally coming out of my incubated period as Martha Wainwright would say and getting back to work screen testing potentials for a new series. At the risk of giving too much away, expect this guy to make an...Jen Williams
recent visit to the Stasi headquarters in the former east berlin.
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from the vaulttag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2009:/news//1.292009-03-18T22:40:52Z2009-04-06T18:49:45ZI was searching through my files for some old family photos I'd scanned a while back and came across this image from a few years ago. While I don't even recall scanning it in the first place, looking at it...Jen Williams]]>
chicken in a can comes downtag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2009:/news//1.282009-02-09T19:26:39Z2009-02-09T22:43:37ZSince all good things must eventually come to an end, Taking Stock came down from the Yukon Art Centre Community Gallery yesterday. I had a lot of fun putting this one together. The overall effect of the canvas printing and...Jen Williams
here and here) and who took the time to email me with your kind words. Thanks also to Jessica and Mary at the YAC for their help getting the word out and to the jury of the Advanced Artist Award fund for supporting the project.
Here are a few images of the gang all together.
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Taking Stocktag:www.jenwilliams.ca,2009:/news//1.272009-01-10T05:01:29Z2009-01-10T05:13:30ZTaking Stock is conceived as an unconventional portrait series that pays homage to one of my favourite Whitehorse institutions. More than a just a corner store, Riverside Grocery is a lone holdout of independence and diversity in an encroaching tide...Jen WilliamsTaking Stock is conceived as an unconventional portrait series that pays homage to one of my favourite Whitehorse institutions. More than a just a corner store, Riverside Grocery is a lone holdout of independence and diversity in an encroaching tide of big box stores and mega-brands that are swiftly and irrevocably changing the social and urban fabric of my home town and small towns like it everywhere.
Carrying such old-school staples as Blue Star chicken in a can, Mapleine imitation extract and Gold Rush cigarillos, this mom and pop shop on the banks of the Yukon River stands stalwart against that wolf in sweatshop clothing known as “progress”. Truly one of the last of the last frontiers, Riverside stares defiantly in the homogenous face of globalization and refuses to go quietly. I like to think of it as the place where the Colourful Five Percent do their grocery shopping.
P.S. If you look closely, you may also see the secret mini-series buried within and inspired by “Skinny Legs and All”, in which author Tom Robbins proposes that the inertia of objects is deceptive and that inanimate objects remain static to us humans solely on account of our neuro-muscular chauvinism. As we hurtle at breakneck speed through the self-imposed chaos of blackberries and blue tooth, play dates, strategic planning and treadmills, the codification and commodification of the mystic, are we missing the trees for the commercially engineered forest? In our never ending pursuit of progress, at the end of the day, is the cosmic joke really on us?]]>
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Tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up
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Taking Stock is conceived as an unconventional portrait series that pays homage to one of my favourite Whitehorse institutions. More than a just a corner store, Riverside Grocery is a lone holdout of independence and diversity in an encroaching tide of big box stores and mega-brands that are swiftly and irrevocably changing the social and urban fabric of my home town and small towns like it everywhere.
Carrying such old-school staples as Blue Star chicken in a can, Mapleine imitation extract and Gold Rush cigarillos, this mom and pop shop on the banks of the Yukon River stands stalwart against that wolf in sweatshop clothing known as “progress”. Truly one of the last of the last frontiers, Riverside stares defiantly in the homogenous face of globalization and refuses to go quietly. I like to think of it as the place where the Colourful Five Percent do their grocery shopping.
P.S. If you look closely, you may also see the secret mini-series buried within and inspired by “Skinny Legs and All”, in which author Tom Robbins proposes that the inertia of objects is deceptive and that inanimate objects remain static to us humans solely on account of our neuro-muscular chauvinism. As we hurtle at breakneck speed through the self-imposed chaos of blackberries and blue tooth, play dates, strategic planning and treadmills, the codification and commodification of the mystic, are we missing the trees for the commercially engineered forest? In our never ending pursuit of progress, at the end of the day, is the cosmic joke really on us?]]>