Trained in photography, Jennifer Zwick works in a variety of media, including large-scale installations, wearable sculptures, painting, interactive video installation, printmaking, and photographic processes. She is particularly interested in optics, symmetry, humor, one-point-perspective, anxiety, repetition, repetition, and repetition.
She says: “I like to play with the cumulative combination of input that our eyes and brain use to make sense of what we see - how depth is perceived; how color impacts orientation and density; how we interpret our position in space, and what that does to our perception of self. I want to know where these things break down, and why, and how that can be both exploited and laid bare, to keep us looking past our assumptions, and to encourage questioning the world as it seems to be.”
Her artwork is included in Seattle’s King County Permanent Arts Collection, and was featured three times on the cover of The Stranger. Zwick was a 2018 Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award Finalist, and she has received numerous grants and awards, including two 4Culture Arts Special Projects Grants, two Artist Trust GAP Grants (including the Jini Dellaccio GAP Grant), a CityArts Projects Grant, and an Artist Trust Fellowship. She has appeared on “Art Zone with Nancy Guppy” and PRI’s “Studio 360”.
Her life goal is to make permanent art installations in hospitals (any leads appreciated). In addition to making art, she writes a song a day once every few years. Jennifer lives and works in Seattle, Washington. She is there right now.
PRESS HIGHLIGHTS:
Recommended by the Seattle Times: “What to see this week: Works by LGBTQ ceramicists and a visual time capsule of quarantine life.”
Also recommended by Crosscut: “A pandemic time capsule at Photographic Center Northwest.”
Beautiful moment in “Art Zone With Nancy Guppy”
Interview in Abstract:
“In Conversation with Jennifer Zwick.”
“Jennifer Zwick and the Art of Waiting.”
Charles Mudede for The Stranger
“What’s Funny About Photography? With Jennifer Zwick.”
Brett Hamil for CityArts Magazine