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Roswell Artis-in-Residence: Jennifer Moses: Spellbound
April 23 - June 5, 2011

Tim Prythero, The Last Emporer (detail), 1988, mixed media, June Middleton Estate Acquisitions Fund Purchase, 1988.010.0001.
Jennifer Moses, Bitter Lake, 2010, oil on wood panel, Courtesty of the Artist.

The works on exhibition reflect a New Englander's astonished reactions to the phenomenon of daily life in New Mexico. The paintings express moments from exploration of Bitter Lake, Carlsbad Caverns, Ghost Ranch, and the Hondo Valley, and also more intimate motifs found closer to home: spider webs and tumbleweeds, the pale colors of grass and scrub, and the drama of the sky. Moses attempts to allow her day-to-day experience influence the work with equal regard for the elegant and the ordinary. Whether it is the hallucinatory landscape, the desert flora and fauna, or the rows of tantalizing craft supplies at Hobby Lobby, she makes the glimpsed and sensed become part of the language of the painting. Then, back in the studio, Moses assembles disparate shapes, lines and colors in an attempt to tell the tale of a tourist in a foreign land—spellbound.

Moses received her BFA degree from Tyler School of Art and her MFA degree from Indiana University. She is currently represented by the Clark Gallery and the Kingston Gallery in Boston, and she has exhibited throughout New England. Moses' work has been reviewed in Art New EnglandThe Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, Sculpture Magazine, and appears in the 2011 Northeast edition of New American Paintings magazine. Moses is Associate Professor of Art at the University of New Hampshire where she has taught for twenty years