ART / EXPRESSION / EXPERIENCE
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…Nature
is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also
includes the inner pictures of the soul.
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Jennifer Kleinsteuber
Original Artwork
"Women with Attitude" Series
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Biography
Jennifer Kleinsteuber was born in Toronto,
Ontario in 1968 and moved to British Columbia in 1972. She
completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Emily Carr Institute
(Vancouver, BC, Canada) in May 2003. Her work focuses mainly on
portrait and figurative painting that navigates a
psycho-socio-sexual aspect.
Kleinsteuber is becoming well known for her portraits in which
she uses photo-transfer techniques and bright, solid colours.
The subject matter of Kleinsteuber's paintings take on a form
that is both confrontational and seductive. These portraits are
sexy and unapologetic. "I want to push the edges and blur the
lines of what society deems as acceptable and tolerable. My
personal focus these days seems to be about exploring sexuality,
that of my own and that of others. Hense, it becomes a focus
that translates into my art practice. I'd like to harness the
wandering eye and dare the viewer to examine their biases and to
promote the enjoyment of looking. Looking is complicated of
course, but it should be pleasureable. And art is.... afterall,
about looking."
Artist’s Statement
ARTIST STATEMENT
A graduate from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Jennifer
Kleinsteuber has ambitious goals of establishing herself as a
successful artist within a five year time frame.
Kleinsteuber is becoming well known for her portraits in which
she uses a photo-transfer technique and bright, solid colours.
Her portraits are compellingly seductive. These subjects pose
for themselves and for the viewer with a confrontational gaze
that is just as powerful as the works themselves. They appear to
be completely aware of our voyeuristic presence. The subjects
unabashed look has transformed the gaze into a mirror that
reflects this presence, our fantasies, our prejudices of beauty
and sexuality back unto us: we are caught looking at the
subject.
"I want the people I paint, to be able to explore their own
fantasies without restricting their position. There is no shame
in being sexy. The careful and self conscious viewer has become
so hyper-aware of the enjoyment of "looking" and "seeing", that
it has been lost or replaced by analysis. I'd like to be able to
harness this wandering eye and dare people to examine their
biases, encourage them to think about the image's construction
and ultimately promote the enjoyment of voyeuristic fantasy
play.
Looking is still complicated, but it can be pleasurable.
Visualize this work being shown in a singular space and imagine
people entering a room where they are surrounded by penetrating
stares, self-assured seductresses, and post-punk nymphs. The
shear multitude of portraits intensifies this transaction of
looking, while ultimately challenging the imaging of fantasy and
representation. They embrace their subjectivity and their
potential fetishization; empowered by their right to present
their vulnerability, their independence and their sexuality.
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