"Sundial (Day and Night)" is the first work I made while temporarily living in upstate NY along the Delaware river. I was so taken by the quiet and expansive yet simple view of the river backed by small mountains that I couldn't continue making the same work I had been making, which has been fueled by anxiety, chaos, and self-deprecating humor. Watching the movement of the sun and moon and changing speed and color of the river became my solace from all of the uncertainty, grief, and tragedy unfolding across humanity on a global scale. The understanding of time itself began collapsing, and depicting the only visual things that actually determine the passage of time to humans (the sun and moon) in the same plane accurately described my perception of my place in the world.
Jen Hitchings (b. 1988, New Jersey) is a Brooklyn-based artist and curator. She received her BFA in Painting & Drawing from SUNY Purchase College in 2011 and Certificate in Small Business & Entrepreneurship from CUNY Hunter in 2018. She has attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Studio Kura (Itoshima, Japan), and Highly Authorized (Ellenville, NY). Solo presentations of her work have taken place at MEN Gallery (New York, NY) and PROTO (Hoboken, NJ) in 2018, and One River School (Englewood, NJ) in 2019. She was a recipient of the Queens Council on the Arts’ New Works Grant in 2018. Her work is represented by PROTO GOMEZ, and she is the founder of Studio Associate, an art consulting agency.
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