STATEMENT Jenn Shifflet is an artist working across disciplines to explore the contemplative and poetic realms of luminosity, color, and space. Her work speaks of dream-like realms, fleeting moments of refracted light, and abstracted reflections of the natural world. Themes of impermanence, alchemy, perception, layered time, and fluidity guide her creative process. Shifflet’s work is a meditation on the dissolution of boundaries between self and nature; a place where sky-like gradients give way to luminous inner worlds of reflection. Her Light Drift series of paintings begin with color fields built up by many transparent glazes of oil paint. These dreamy skies give way to orchestrations of spheric light. Shifflet’s Radient Nature series leans even more into her exploration of color theory as her circles of reflected light form geometric kaleidoscopes, inviting the viewer to lose themselves in the play of patterns and color. The paintings bring to mind fleeting moments of beauty found only in nature: fading stars or dew drops evaporating in the morning light. Jenn Shifflet mines the immaterial through the blurred lines of ambiguity, formlessness, and ethereality. Shifflet’s process balances intuition, control, chance, and letting go. She chooses materials that work with light: reflective, transparent, iridescent, and refractive pigments. In her Free Flow series, watery pours of acrylic leave drips and stains on paper. Once dry, she continues to work with colored pencil to create auras of light, transforming the physical stains and shadowed sediment that have settled through time into radiating magical forms. For Jen, this process is a metaphor for the feminine wisdom that wears down and tempers the hard edges of the world. Time unfolds slowly through deeply layered transparent pigmented washes that create a saturated, spacious, and luminous depth through gradated color. The historical influences of Shifflet’s work include color field painting, color theory, and the light and space movement. Personal influences of Buddhist practice, daily walks at dusk, and a near-death experience have led to the visual language of a beauty that is held within the profound fragility of impermanence. In a world that is burdened by struggle on so many levels, her work inspires us to take a break from the chaos of the outer world, to pause, slow down and rest in this moment of contemplation. ABOUT Based in California, Jenn Shifflet has been exhibited in solo exhibitions across the United States including the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA; The Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsen AL; and the SF MOMA Artist Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Shifflet has also participated in numerous group exhibitions at venues including the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Rotunda Gallery, Corcoran Gallery, and National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.; University of California at Santa Cruz; Kala Institute and Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley; and the New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Shifflet was awarded an affiliate residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts from 2004 to 2007. In 2015, she was a Bullseye Artist in Residence. In 2013, she was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Grant. In 2020 and 2021, she received a Haven Foundation Grant. Shifflet’s work is represented in collections around the world. She is currently represented by SLATE Contemporary Gallery in Oakland CA.