Featured Artist – Jenny Wyss

Our featured artist this week is Jenny Wyss.  Jenny will be having a Gallery Reception showcasing her recent work at The Word is Art gallery on Saturday, March 1, 2013 from 6-9 pm.

It was happenstance that led Jenny to TWIA.  She had been thinking about putting her work out into the world more directly since moving to LA, and discovered the gallery while on a walk with her dog.  A few friendly conversations later, and it became her new art home.  She finds the co-op structure to be very democratic, which is not typically a descriptor she associates with the art world at large.

Portrait

Her work over the past several years has focused on succulents and the cosmos, but in a very explorative and private manner.  She kept returning to watercolor and polymer clay in miniature and detailed ways.  Now with her work in the public gaze, she is finding herself encouraged to push deeper, hybridize her visions, and return to some themes she is finding a renewed interest in — especially the narrative female form.  Succulents and bohemian geometry have become a major part of her visual vocabulary, so she thinks they’ve got a bit more to give before they’re played out.

Succulent Necklace

Jenny has always been a creator, and studied art in college and graduate school.  Art making for her is such a private experience that it always felt very artificial to have so many people involved in its related coursework and critiques.  As a result, it might seem a bit strange that she became an art teacher herself, but says that she always found her teachers to be encouraging, and she really enjoys helping young artists.   She will be teaching a Boho-Geo Jewelry Making Class at the Gallery in early April.