JENNIFER CLIFTON is an artist working in Raleigh. She shares, “My art presents oppositions—the natural against the synthetic, the individual against the modern hum, independence against the energy of regularity, action against thought, self-generated female power against an inescapable yet still attractive backdrop, past against present. My figurative 2D work—paintings and pencil drawings with wallpaper—present subjects inspired by photos from the vaudeville era and elsewhere in the last century, or invented, surrounded by mod wallpaper or painted patterns. Color is unashamed, defiance is pleasure, with an edge of surreal juxtaposition. The backgrounds suggest a struggle with an exterior but can also depict the interior energy of the central figure—viewers can decide the balance.”
