BIO
Jennifer Reid is a ceramic sculptor and educator based in Connecticut. She received her MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz and a BFA from The University of North Carolina at Asheville. Jennifer splits her time between working in her home studio and teaching K-8 Art at a local Montessori School.
Jennifer exhibits her work nationally, including at the ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, The Clay Studio, The Clay Center of New Orleans, The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Guilford Art Center, S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, Silvermine Galleries, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. She received local recognition through an emerging artist award from The Drew Friedman Community Art Center in Westport, CT. She is currently a member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists.
About the work
In my work, I address concepts of desire, beauty, and intimacy that exist in both the botanical world and the human condition. I am interested in the phenomena of floral attraction - like that of walking through a garden in which chaotic textures of floral color, scents and sounds eventually give way to a seduction by individual flowers. The work I create is reflective of such experiences of botanical enrapture. I explore the sculptural potential of the vessel as a means to translate a sensation of desire into a material experience.