the Mona Lisa Project
Judy Jensen
Art critic Nancy Bless wrote, “Jensen’s creations lie somewhere between a collage and a collection, a Wunderkammer of artifacts from her travels and dreams.”
Jensen has exhibited widely, with solo venues including The Galveston Arts Center, The Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, and eight exhibits at New York's Heller Gallery. Group exhibitions include Atlanta’s High Museum, the New Delhi Biennale, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Japan.
An NEA Fellowship Grant recipient, her works are in numerous public and private collections, including the Royal Ontario Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Washington Art Consortium.
For the past six years, Jensen has worked almost exclusively on commissions.
Da Vinci dissected over thirty corpses, and knew anatomy well. So he could not only see beauty, but he knew what lay beneath it, and supported it: blood, cartilage, muscles, bone. My project will refer to this.
Photo: Ave Bonar
