Jennifer Epperson

Epperson’s provocative paintings, collages and mixed media work, are often about women. The artist may slap you with a giant peach, a lush ball gown framing a womb in distress, or a theory of transmutation. With Epperson’s penchant for creating intellectual art you just never know where the work, all hard edges, bright color and pattern, will take you. Use of photography, digital and manual manipulation, and a multitude of wet and dry mark making mediums lead to lush, sensuous images that initially charm the viewer. It does not take long for meaning to surface however. The artist’s intuitive use of symbols and icons, appropriation and revision, and subtle details that slip into the picture edges, all wind through the unconscious, inviting a second and third look.

Like the surrealists of the last century,( some of whom lived and worked in Sedona as Epperson did for fifteen years) the artist explores memories, imagining, and dreams. Sex, death and the human condition are topics the artist returns to again and again. Don’t expect delicate work from Epperson; rather plan to dive deep and have fun.


When Epperson steps out of the studio, community art projects are created. Controversial topics, like guns and children, rape, femal...

Houston International University, University Without Walls Program, Marketing and Business Administration, 1981-1984
Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1998-2002
Four-year program, specializing in painting
Sedona Arts Center, Sedona AZ 2003-2004, 2008 Continuing Education in watercolor, encaustic painting and life drawing and painting.
Yavapai College, Life drawing, 2008
Intensive Studies Program - Taos, NM, May 2012, 2014

Exhibitions/Events/Awards

• Solo Exhibit “Spirit of Women: Pin-ups and Glamour Girls” The Artery, Houston, TX, 2002
• Juried Student Show, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX 2001, 2002
• Group Show:” Figurative Takes” 2002 Mason Street Gallery, Houston, TX 2002
• Annual Juried Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Allen Center, Houston, TX 2002
• Solo Exhibit “Pairing: Portraits of Thirteen Couples” Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX 2002
• Annual Juried Exhibition Sedona Arts Center, Sedona AZ, 2003
• Solo Exhibit: “Truth Trilogy” series and “Ancestors” series, Sedona, AZ 2004
• The Red Fringe Art Show, Sedona Arts Center Gallery, March 2006
• Annual Juried Exhibition, Sedona Arts Center, 2008
• First Friday Solo Exhibit, Flagstaff AZ, 2009
• First Friday Solo Exhibit, Flagstaff, AZ 2011
• Art in the Garden, Imagiventure Foundation, Sedona AZ, 2012
• A Place for Art, Speakers and Videography- Mark Larsen and Dan Havel, Mary Fisher Theater, Sedona, AZ 2012
• Guns/Children Exhibition, Imagiventure Foundation, Sedona, AZ, 2013
• Installation: Invest in a Living Future, Yavapai College-Viticulture, Cottonwood AZ, 2013
• 24-Hour Theatre Project, OLLI/Yavapai College, Sedona, AZ 2014
• 24-Hour Theatre Project, OLLI/Yav...