Perspectives 171: Jennifer West September 8, 2010

Working in film and film installation, Jennifer West makes exciting and visually arresting works that blend filmmaking, painting, and performance art. She treats the celluloid as both a medium to record actions and a surface to be manipulated--often with unconventional and disparate substances. Responding to the specific architecture of the venues where she exhibits her work, West projects her films--sometimes as singular painterly entities and other times as multichannel projections--filling the space and giving it shape through a cacophony of color and movement