Malia Jensen

 

 

Jensen’s innate conceptual play between our suppositions of the natural and the metaphors of material make her one of the premier artists from the Pacific Northwest. For example, she uses cozy sewn materials to create subversively transformed Cat Condos from fabrics with lingerie sheen. Both sexy and containing a sense of loss, this work is more personal and full of riddles than her earlier works like Knotty Situation shown in a detail above. Knotty’s juxtaposition of automotive paint foxes and the what must have been obscenely difficult to produce plywood tree has a sporty red fox on one side and a Champaign gold colored fox on the other. Both face the tree and one another as a sort of three faces of Eve. The red fox is the young vivacious fox; the other is the color of the typical family car. The obscenely technical tree in the center is Jensen’s art as deus ex machina.

 

 

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