About Jennifer Helen Meanley

Jennifer Helen Meanley is an artist who currently resides in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing and the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She received her BA in Literature from Mount Holyoke College in 2001, her BFA coursework in Painting from The University of New Hampshire in 2004, and her MFA in Painting from Indiana University in 2006.

Since 2007, Meanley has been represented by Les Beaux Artes des Ameriques, in Montreal Canada. She has had numerous solo national and international exhibitions in: Montreal, Cincinnati, Tulsa, and North Carolina, and most recently at The Manifest Drawing Center, The Henry Zarrow Center of Fine Art, and Gallery One One One. Her work exists in numerous personal collections, and was curated in 2014 as the solo exhibition Far away The Meadow, at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, by Steven Matijicio.

The unhomely or the uncanny are relevant terms of expression to describe Jennifer Meanley’s depiction of the domestic and natural places of her figuration. In a fundamental way, her approach to visualization through the act of painting, qualifies a traditionally phenomenal stance toward the time-intensive creation of imagery and narrative. Through the act of being made, her work seeks to actualize deep-seated phenomenal anxieties of the body and of the mind in order to objectively interrogate their learned and institutional properties, to deescalate their perceived threats, and ultimately to gain as much insight into and power over them as is personally possible. This sustains the tensional nature of observation foundational to Meanley’s work and practice: that her paintings are largely about the acts of looking, of seeing, and of being seen.

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