Counterpoint: Jennifer Bedenbaugh Solo Exhibition

Art & Light Gallery is pleased to present Counterpoint, a solo exhibition of work by Jennifer Bedenbaugh (Greenville, SC) launching on the Art & Light website and in the gallery at 10am (EST) on Tuesday, October 29th with an opening reception on Friday, November 1st from 6-8pm.  Jennifer Bedenbaugh is most well known for her minimalist clay sculptures, which convey a quiet, intimate power through their economy of form. Occasionally incorporating found objects, steel, wood, wire and ephemera, Bedenbaugh’s sculptural work is an ongoing exploration of the symbol of shelter as an embodiment of the self.

In Counterpoint, Bedenbaugh shifts from the stillness found in her sculptural work to the two dimensional surface of painting, allowing a new abstract language to emerge. Similar to the slow building and refining of a clay form, the artist encourages subconscious marks to build, erode, and resurface in her paintings. Layers of intuitive mark making create a gradual accumulation of line and translucent washes of color, contrasted by areas of bold, flat color in intentional shapes that echo the restraint in her sculptural work.   Bedenbaugh shares, “Counterpoint is the embodiment of an analytical deep dive into the great disparity that existed between my past sculptural works and my new ventures into painting. Through my ongoing exploration into the symbol of shelter as a metaphor for real life experience, my sculptural work has maintained an allegorical stoicism, a witness to restraint and order. My foray into the world of painting was wild, chaotic and untamed. With no visible overlap, I needed to understand how the two distinctly different processes could coexist within my practice. Counterpoint is a musical term that means the art or texture resulting from the juxtaposition of two contrasting melodic lines. In this work, I sought out ways that these two melodies of mine, order and chaos, could overlap and form a harmony unmistakably their own.”