Opening Reception: April 11, 5-9pm
On View: April 11 – May 2
Morean Center for Clay:
420 22nd St. S.

Artist’s Statement

My work often holds a deep reverence for the natural world, concerns about climate change and natural disaster. Lately I have created another landscape; populated by an army of friendly creatures.  Here burdens are dismissed by the whimsical. Happy Birthday Stinky invites viewers to attend a birthday party for a skunk, complete with a dinosaur pinata, cake, ice cream, presents, balloons, and pizza. In this place worry is edged out by the fantastic and mystical. The apocalyptic is supplanted by the surreal and the allegorical. Outside influences still seep in, broken ceramic windows let in a flurry of leaves, cigarettes, old tin cans, a dead bluejay. My work often flirts with how the world might end, while simultaneously finding ways to adapt, recreate, and live on. 

Artist Bio

Jenny Day (b.1981) is an artist who lives in Cerrillos, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz. Her exhibition record most recently includes Arte Laguna in Venice, Italy, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, Museum of Art Fort Collins, Mesa Arts Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, Blue Star Contemporary Museum in San Antonio, TX,  Alabama Contemporary in Mobile, AL, and Elmhurst Museum in Chicago, IL. Day’s work has been supported by grants from the  Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Puffin Foundation , Phoenix Art Museum, Process Museum and multiple public art purchase awards.  Day has been an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch, Greenwich House Pottery,  Ucross Foundation, Jentel Foundation, Playa Foundation For The Arts, and many other artist residencies. Jenny Day is represented by Ferrara Showman Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, Visions West in Denver, Colorado and Bozeman, Montana, and Galerie Bengelstrater in Dusseldorf, Germany.