Description:
KPU Fine Arts - Artist Speaker Series
Jessica Gnyp
In installations that fuse stuff such as rolls of photo-backdrop paper, salt, seaweed, ink, plastic, and museum mounts, Jessica Gnyp articulates a connection between the so-called natural and the synthetic, highlighting the interaction between photographic practice and the environment. Materially and conceptually aware, her work articulates likenesses between material formation in nature and technological processes that we employ in daily life. Gnyp received an MFA from the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at UBC, a BFA in photography from Emily Carr University, and a BA in anthropology from UVic. She recently completed residencies at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin and Salzburg International Summer Academy, Austria. She has taught as Visiting Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland and currently teaches photography in KPU Fine Arts.
Location: Spruce 216 (Drawing Studio)