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You can contact me at jennybrd@yahoo.com if you would like to receive email for upcoming shows.
Jennybird Alcantara is an artist living in San Francisco CA. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.. The majority of her work is oil paintings on wood but she also creates art dolls inspired by her paintings and acrylic works on paper. Her work has at its core a dreamlike narrative and through her paintings she contemplates the complex interconnectedness of opposites as seen through the prism of myth, fable and fantasy. Jennybird uses the symbolism of duality to explore the connection of life and death and the veil in between, as well as the relationship between the beauty and cruelness of nature, that of the natural world as well as human and animal nature. The anthropomorphic qualities in her characters show the relationship of the central figure to the world she inhabits.
Jennybird's work has been exhibited broadly in the US and Europe. Her work has been published in the Hi Fructose Box Edition Set, Ideafixa Greatest Hits, The Age of Feminine Drawing, several small publications as well as Hi Fructose, Juxtapoz , Raw Vision and Art Doll Quarterly magazines.
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CURRENT AND UPCOMING SHOWS
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Jennybird Alcantara at La Luz de Jesus
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LOWBROW TAROT PROJECT
Tarot Exhibition Project & Book
Jennybird will be painting the Moon Card
http://www.lowbrowtarot.com/
 
"There are 22 cards in the Major Arcana, each showing some aspect of the human experience. The cards of the Major Arcana are focused on three themes: the realm of the material world, the realm of the intuitive mind, and the realm of change."
The Lowbrow Tarot Exhibition will showcase 22 amazing artists who will use their creative genius and unique style to take on the 22 Major Arcana and create 22 new works of art in the rugged glow of the lowbrow art movement to be displayed in an exhibition and table top book and full color card deck in 2010.
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PAST SHOWS
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A Cry For Help
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The Red Thread
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Treacherous Gardens
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Jennybird Alcantara's Treacherous Gardens solo exhibit of paintings explores "the garden of the mind" and its vast, beautiful landscape filled with inherent pitfalls. Duality, water themes, dreams and nightmares figure prominently in this series of detailed fantasies in oil and acrylic on panel.
"I have always been a daydreamer," says Jennybird, "and get many of my ideas during that state of semi-consciousness. My inspirations come from a wide variety of sources including fairytales and fables, mythology, the natural world and freaks of nature, melancholy...broken dolls and objects out of place." With a narrative at its core, Alcantara's minutely detailed paintings are filled with objects that possess un-borrowed symbolism contained within each piece and within the series. The artist's love of animals and their instincts is seen and felt in her use of folklore and metaphor. Dual natures addressing the veils between human-animal, internal-external, and life-death embody the characters central to each work of art. Treacherous Gardens draws the viewer deeper into a world both strange and beautiful, guided by a generous hand.
Jen Rogers - Varnish Fineart Gallery
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Whaleless
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Stuff This - 2nd Annual Plush Show
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Miami Art Basel - KNOW Exhibition - Group Show
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September - October 2008
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
September 2008
Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
September 2008
A Bitchin' Space, Sacramento, CA
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La Rochelle, France
September 2006
August - September 2008
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
April 2008
Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles, CA
January 2008
March 2008
Vancouver BC, Canada
February 2008
MF Gallery, NY, NY
February 2008
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
November - December 2007
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
November 2007
Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, CA
November - December 2007
Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
September 8th, 2007
Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL
July 07
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
April 7, 07
Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
3137 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
February - March, 2007
International Women's Day
Anza Club- 8th & Ontario,Vancouver BC
March 2007
Newport Beach, CA
December 2006
Los Angeles, CA
Sept - October 2006
La Rochelle, France
July 2006
Los Angeles, CA
July 2006
San Francisco, CA
July 2006
New York, N.Y.
Spring 2006
Spring, 2006
San Jose, CA
New York, N.Y.
December 2005
December, 2005
San Jose, CA
August 29th through September 4th 2005
Black Rock City, NV
March 10th through April 5th, 2005
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA
Dec. 2 - Jan 2, 2004
San Jose, CA
Dec 3 - Jan 3, 2004
New York, N.Y.
November 6 - December 12, 2004
San Francisco, CA
December 4, 2004
"International Underground"
San Francisco, CA
Aug - Sept. 2004
San Francisco, CA
Aug. 2004
San Francisco, CA
Feb. 2004
Culver City, CA
Feb. 2004
Echo Park, Los Angeles
Nov. 2003
San Francisco, CA
Oct. 2003
San Francisco, CA
May 2003
San Francisco
Feb. 2003
San Francisco
Dec. 2002
San Francisco
Dec. 2002
San Francisco
June 2002
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