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Jen G
@jeng-art.bsky.social
Visual artist focusing on contexts and connections.

Comfort the disturbed
Disturb the comfortable

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It was a beautiful night in Quincy. Just passing through. Found a great furniture/antique/hot tub store!
#autumn #quincy #Illinois #midwest #photography #goldenhour
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The Girl
8”x 10”
Intaglio print

Looking through storage and came across some works from the early days. I made this print in high school, 1990.
#intaglio #handmadeprint #printmaking #BlueSkyArt #art
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Epstein Shoes
2025
found objects, acrylics

This new work will be available @p_s_won Surreal Emporium as part of Dada Prom in Iowa City next month.

#believewomen #epstein #child #woman #feminist #feministart #dada #surreal #shoes #adult #heels #BlueSkyArt #politicalart
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
details, Bench
48”x 60”
acrylics on canvas

The shift in the content of my work is about providing comfort in these times. I thought it was for others, whoever buys it, but realized through the process of painting that it’s also for me. While I’m painting I get to immerse myself in magical realism.
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Coon Creek, Nov 2025
Watercolor sketch
4” x 8”
November 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Shadows dancing on one of my canvases, in progress.
November 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Work in progress
Kept the door knob in the pic for a sense of scale, it’s a doozy!
Decided to add fireflies, next to add their glow. Also working on the trees. So close!
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Folding child’s chair from a thrift shop, hardwood with steel pins (don’t make ‘em like they used to). Considering using it as a frame for this color study from college.

#Abstractart #acrylics #color #art #painting #framing #BlueSkyArt #artyear #stunday #creative #process #artprocess
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Faceless Woman
graphite and crayon

Based on a visual dream, these dreams without explanation are food for my soul. It’s not a dream with a narrative, it’s just images, like gifts from a muse.
#surrealism #feministart #surreal #dream #image #BlueSkyArt #artyear #faceless #woman #art
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Altar of Existential Joy
20”x14”x8”
Found object and acrylics, in collaboration with Steve Hosch (print) and Mike Christoff (photograph)

I lay in a field of flowers, taking joy in the moment, the beauty, the fragrance, the symbolism.
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Work in progress
a little altar for existential joy

Collaborating with a printmaker and photographer (partially shown), utilizing a found wood structure.

#art #collab #altar #floral #painting #acrylics #crocus #marigold #calalily #BlueSkyArt #natureart #artyear
November 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Herman, the Grim Reaper

7 layers:
Dropcloth soaked in cement
Monster mud
Dark exterior paint
Green acrylic texture
Black acrylic in folds
Sponge on light patina
Black spray paint interior

Life size art is a different experience. It’s like I have another pet, who I love and need to take care of.
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This is how it’s going, the progress pics are exciting to me, but may be very confusing to you.
Why is my new friend (Herman, I’ve started calling him) gray, then half white and blue? Because the first layer was concrete, which wasn’t strong enough so I added my concoction of monster mud.
October 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Tropics
9”x12”
Analog collage and acrylics
on paper

Someone left a stack of infomercial type magazines outside my office and no one wants them. So now I get to have fun with repetition!

October 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Käthe Kollwitz
Lamentation
and Self Portrait

Käthe was a German Jewish artist teaching during the rise of Fascism. I connected deeply with her work years ago during a time of deep grief. In our current events her work means even more.

October 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Patina details from Bellefontaine cemetery,
St. Louis

#cemetery #funeraryart #metalarts #Sullivan #patina
October 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Beautiful statuary
@ Bellefontaine cemetery,
St Louis

#photography #statuary #cemetery #mourning #art
October 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Woman in an Alley
From Edwardsville, IL
10 Oct 2025

#photography #urban #art #statue
October 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Ibis Flight
watercolor and graphite
inspired by photo posted by @azmerm.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Kite Lake peaks
watercolor
Thank you card for my partner for being so supportive when I had a rough couple of days (years?)
October 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Collage and gouache
October 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Night shadows from the moon and creepy full moon with clouds. Captured well with my IPhone camera. Thank you moon, you’re lovely!
#fullmoon #Halloween #night #landscape #photography
October 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
October 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Haunted House Challenge
This was a fun #gouache painting that I made yesterday, inspired by listening to the Ray Bradbury book, From the Dust Returned. If you make a haunted house, I’d love to see it, we could make a whole neighborhood together!
#hauntedhouse #hauntedhousechallenge
October 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM