Jennet Inglis

I paint because I am a high-functioning autistic. As an infant, my first memories, (hmm, yes, I do in fact remember that far back), are of sound, silence and color. Sound was heard on my skin, not through my ears and then my brain. At the same time, because in my head was the world of silence and color, almost all sounds were excruciating. As a child, adolescent and adult high-functioning autistic my primary negative trigger has always been audial; it is easy to see why. This odd dislocation later grew to become a disciplined and distinct, eventually visionary, survival technique. Easily understood to be a kind of ”disembodiment”, this positive transformation means that I manage life today with the sensation that my heart is completely exposed on the noisy screeching surface of my body, on my skin.
The primary remedy for my particular consciousness (read: autism) has always been living pure sentient color, and the sentient and non-sentient (i.e. silicate) forms and mass that radiate color. The only method for managing the gift and the curse of my consciousness has been color. My medicine is pure perceived color, color that breathes life, which is light.There is the pure science of perception, and truth of discovery in color. Afte...

Smith College BA
The University of New Mexico MFA
American University PhD ABD

Easterseals National Headquarters
Acquisition & Monumental Installation
Walnut Creek, California

Solo Retrospective: George Mason University
President Mason’s Hall; & “Visual Voices” Lecture Series Fairfax, Virginia

Corcoran Gallery: Washington Project for the Arts Washington, D.C.

Virginia Equine Artist’s Association, Exhibition no.1, Lexington, Virginia

Virginia Equine Artist’s Association, Exhibition, no. 2 Lexington, Virginia

The Nomad Gallery International Tour Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Sole American, “Modern Mystics & Masterpieces”

“International Body/Mind Symposium”
New York, New York

Solo Museum Retrospective Dusseldorf, Germany

Museum Martfeld Schwelm: “Light Out of Darkness”

“First American Exhibits” Solo Retrospective & Seminars

Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center; the Cork Gallery New York, New York

“The Healing Spirit of Color”: Public Installation & Seminar

World Congress on Arts & Medicine New York, New York

“The Curative Role of Color”: Public Installation & Seminar
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