Caroline Jennings

I work as a painter, printmaker, and papermaker, focusing upon the precarious juxtaposition of daily life and "larger events". My work is narrative and figurative, with an element of magic realism - I am, mostly, a story-teller. I am interested especially in aspects of dislocation and longing experienced by those who are exiles within their own lands and/or who spend their lives mentally, emotionally, or physically stretched between two worlds. While most of the time I work in oils, using traditional materials and methods, about half of my recent work is in paper making, in which I embed text and images. I am currently developing a series of paper pieces incorporating text and photographs made by my grandfather between 1911 and 1925 - I consider these collaborative works.

Over the past ten years, I have been resident artist, small finds researcher, and Arabic translator for the Great Arab Revolt Project in southern Jordan (2008-2011).

The New School University, Arabic and Literature.
Smith College, Magna cum laude, History and American Studies.
The Memphis College of Art, Painting and Printmaking.

2019-2020 “Storytellers: Art and Literature from the Juliet Art Museum Permanent Collection”; Juliet Art Museum, Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV.
2019 Site Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

2018 Solo exhibition, new paintings, Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA.
2017 “Nine at Oxbow.” Summer group show, Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA.
“Re:Joyce in the Land of Coal.” Solo exhibition, handmade paper, Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA.
Women Artists in WV History, Monongahela Arts Center, Morgantown, WV.
2016-18 “Shifting Sands”, 11 field drawings of the Great Arab Revolt Project, southern Jordan 2008-2010, National Civil War Museum, UK.
2015, "Just Sayin'", Art on 30th, San Diego, CA
2013 Three Person Exhibition, The Art Store Gallery, Charleston, WV.
2012 “On the Threshold,” Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA.
Viridian Artists group exhibition curated by Chrissie Iles, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
“Soul of Italy,” juried exhibition, Washington, DC; Best of Show.
2011 Solo exhibition, Hope and Feathers, Amherst, MA.
2010 Solo exhibition, Oresman Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
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