BIO
Jennifer Reid is a ceramic sculptor and educator based in Connecticut. She received her MFA from SUNY New Paltz and her BFA from UNC Asheville. She divides her time between her home studio, teaching Art at a local Montessori school, caring for her two children, and enjoying time outdoors with her husband and dog.
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.
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 tangled textures and colors inundate and then seduce. I explore the sculptural potential of the vessel as a means to translate this feeling of floral enrapture into a material experience.