Jennifer Liston Munson: Glance

The judi rotenberg gallery is pleased to present Glance, Jennifer Liston Munson's first solo exhibition at the gallery.

Jennifer Liston Munson works with the unlikely combination of two disparate media: c-prints and oil paintings. Her alluring, faded imagery are abstractions of Polaroid's taken in motion during her travels. Through the enlargement of the original grainy Polaroid, and through the translation from one medium to another, Liston Munson further distances her imagery from the particulars of place, and recreates the perceptive experience of a glance.

Liston Munson has been working with a Polaroid xs-70 for several years now. These thumbnail size pictures are her preferred method of isolating a moment of visual interest. The hazy, blurred, tonal images are then filtered through a digital enlargement process. At this stage, the artist further translates the subject through painting, by working on a panel that has been prepared with plaster and sanded to a fine finish. On this surface, Liston Munson, employs a repetitive layering of oil in washes to create depth and richness. Liston Munson's image selections resonate familiarity, and therefore offer room for appropriation of memory for the particular viewer. The material juxtaposition of these saturated architectural components and the reflective sheen of the c-print reinforce this sensation as the viewer looks back and forth to locate an elusive memory that shifts form.

Liston Munson received her B.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art, and her M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1997 after studying at Loughborough College of Art and Design, Leicestershire, England. She has exhibited at commercial galleries and institutions, including CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, University of Massachusetts Art Gallery, Lowell, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has also been the recipient of the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant and the Traveling Scholars Award for the School of the Museum of Fine Arts .