elegiac Painting

Interest to me as of recent is the investigation of an ambiguous, constructed, and animated space that utilizes open, abstracted imagery in order to bypass or delay immediate recognition and access a state of suspended wonder. Central to this is the creation of painting as palimpsest through process, negation, and reinterpretation in the service of exploring the tension between the explicable and in-explicable, whether it be celestial, spiritual, the natural world, or other. By injecting subtexts through formal elements such as pressure, design, asymmetrical balance and a juxtaposition of painting languages, I hope to disrupt the viewer from a set perspective. Jenny Hager lives and works in Los Angeles