I make images that evoke our physicality, the world around us and the otherworldly. Sometimes it begins with something unnoticed that supports our daily life (foams, foils, glass, aluminum paints). Other times it begins with the materials we’ve used to record our experience in time (paper, iron, silver, the stuff of photography).

I render each material using and mis-using varied photographic processes – analog, digital, experimental, moving and still – to reveal and re-imagine the unseen through dramatic shifts in scale and sympathetic manipulation of each material.

In my studio and darkroom, a crumpled piece of cinefoil or ordinary piece of packaging foam yields mysterious electric worlds or shifting landscapes of movement evocative of the photographic processes that make them visible. 

I am held by how a work is as much as how it has come to be. Sometimes an image is fixed and others it is constantly in flux, physically affected by its environment. The accumulation of works, from one series or singular image to the next, maps a way of looking: closely, over time and in context with one another. Together, they engage us in our curiosity, our urge to connect one thing with another, our want to recognize ourselves in the world around us.

BIO

Jennifer Brandon lives and works in San Francisco, CA. In 2007, she received her MFA at Mills College, preceded by an MA in 2005 and BA in 2004 in Art with an emphasis in painting at California State University, Northridge, as well as a BA in 1997 in English Literature at San Francisco State University. Brandon's work has been shown at Bay Area venues including Mills College Art Museum, SF Camerawork, Headlands Center for the Arts, Casemore Kirkeby Gallery, The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and Stephen Wirtz Gallery. Residencies, awards and fellowships include The Rayko Artist in Residence, The Herringer Prize for Excellence in Studio Art and The Catherine Morgan Trefethen Fellowship in Art. Brandon currently teaches at Mills College, and has taught at San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, De Anza College and UC Berkeley.