Jane Snar
University Of Oregon, Sculpture
Bio:
Jane Snar received a BA from the University of Rochester and is an MFA candidate at the University of Oregon. Snar’s previous proximity to the medical and scientific community as an emergency nurse as well as a medical graphic designer informs her art practice and creates avenues for exploring the ontological notion of self within the landscape of medical imaging and healthcare.
Artist Statement:
The visceral disquietude of the inner body informs my artistic practice. Boundless in function, the body’s internal milieu presents the continual processes of growth and decomposition. The interstitial language of beauty in the grotesque presents itself in this place of anomalous form and ambivalent emotion. In my fantastical vision of the interior body, abstracted and hybridized forms pose a disobedience to classificatory systems that stereotype the normal or ideal. Conceptually, this synthesis and derangement of bodily parts, made alien, parallels my own wonder and fear of the body.
Through materiality and installation, I explore dream-like bodily environments that investigate my understanding of how beauty can intermingle with the grotesque. Biomorphic forms that grow up from the floor, ooze down the wall, dangle overhead, visuall...
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