JAMIE POWELL
Jamie Powell was born in Fairmont West Virginia thirty miles south of the Mason Dixon Line to a family of farmers and factory workers. Her Appalachian roots encouraged a culture of reuse, repurposing, patching and stitching. She has an interest in exploring the boundaries of what paintings can be through a highly experimental process of dying, braiding, weaving, stitching and staining raw canvas. Influences range from Rauschenberg to Jessica Stockholder, from Arte Povera to Pattern and Decoration, from Formalism to Feminism. In her most recent body of work, she has returned to her rural roots exploring landscapes through memory, meditations and deepening connection to the elements.
She has exhibited extensively over the last fifteen years including: Soil Gallery in Seattle, David & Schweitzer and Fresh Window in Brooklyn, Freight + Volume, Morgan Lehman and Garis&Hahn in New York. She has received grants from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Vermont Studio Center and Pratt Institute. She is a faculty member at Pratt Institute and a Teaching Artist for the Studio in a School Foundation as well as co-teaches the Lincoln Center Summer Intensive Boot Camp. Currently, divides her time between a small country lakeside town 35 miles from the city and Brooklyn, NY.
Oh No Let's Go! (After Prince), 2017
Acrylic and spray paint on dyed cut canvas, 34" x 30"
