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JENNIFER WHITE KURI
USA
ARTIST STATEMENT
IT’S GOOD TO BE HER(E),
Biennale Arte Dolomiti 2018 Archival Ink Limited Edition Print
Property of the artist
WE ARE HER(E),
Biennale Arte Dolomiti 2016 Archival Ink Limited Edition Print
Property of the artist
Global Women Project
Limited Edition Book of 25 copies with Print signed and numbered by the artist Hardbound with Clamshell Book
In 2016 the just published GWP Book signi ed the culmination of a 10-year project celebrating in uential women around the world and exhibited at the rst Biennale Arte Dolomiti with a thematic limited edition print “WE ARE HER(E)” symbolizing as a metaphor the GWP having reached great heights.
The metaphor continues in the second Biennale 2018 with the legend invoked by the Rosengarten Mountain Range of the Dolomites celebrated for their alpenglow – the rosy reddish glow only visible after sunset or before sunrise. The legend is referenced in a second limited edition print “IT’S GOOD TO BE HER(E)” and depicts roses inspired from the legend of the dwarf King Laurin who had cultivated a magni cent rose garden at the foot of the mountains but left a curse to hide the Rosy glow from all. Famously, the curse had not included twilight, the magical time of “in- between- ness” — when alpenglow is born and seen.
The metaphor of the Dolomites’s rose garden, signi es something marvelous and also mysterious.
The legend’s reference to ‘in-between-ness’ in space and time, emphasizes the idea and metaphor of “interstices” — the crucial tiny spaces that intervene and allow borders to be crossed, thus enabling new thought and powerful creations to be generated.
IT’S GOOD TO BE HER(E), is presented by the ongoing Global Women Project — an evolving cycle of female multimedia portraits by Jennifer White Kuri who have worked to improve their social, political, and physical environments. Northern Italy’s Dolomites’ unique aspenglow, its interstices, are the metaphor for crossing a border to new thought, the essence of the art in Kuri’s Global Women Project..
Jennifer White Kuri
Special Thanks to J. Kuri Film Director
BIOGRAPHY
Jennifer White Kuri born in Syracuse, New York; currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Kuri received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied with leading painters of the San Francisco Bay Area Figurative School, including Joan Brown and Elmer Bischoff. Drawing from a diverse cultural and geographic landscape, Kuri’s work often takes a diaristic approach. She thrives in the space between the representational and the conceptual, allowing her to exploit contextual and perceptual shifts. Kuri has exhibited in the United States and Europe, in numerous solo and group shows including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Art Basel in Miami. Her work has also been featured on the HBO television series Six Feet Under, and can be found in numerous private collections.