Bio
Jennifer Lord is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and taijiquan teacher. They received their MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and their undergraduate degree from Naropa University. The exhibition Betty Woodman: Boulder, Community, Legacy curated by Lord runs from Dec. 12, 2026-March 24, 2027. Lord was a 2024 Rough Gems curator at Union Hall for Dirty Abstraction. They study and teach T’ai Chi Ch’uan with Rocky Mountain T’ai Chi Ch’uan. Lord has been a resident at Mountain Water, a land restoration project that combines contemplative practice with creative expression. They are always reading several books concurrently. Born in Salt Lake City, they live, work, and teach in Boulder, Colorado. Their work is held in several private collections.
Follow them on Instagram @juniperlord
email: juniperlord at gmail dot com
Lord is a member of Sculptxr Group Denver.
Artist Statement
I’m an interdisciplinary artist, working mainly with fiber-based-materials and sculpture in installation, with a background in painting. I collage and manipulate fiber-based-materials or other media to create compositions that bring multiple, sometimes disparate and unlikely things together into conversation. My work generates a feeling of harmony using color as a formal and structuring element. Conceptually, I’m interested in the possibilities presented by 2.5D space or pieces/situations that explore inbetweenness. I have spent the past year deeply researching Betty Woodman’s early work (1955-1980), which has inspired me to work with ceramics.
Utilizing patchwork or collage as a speculative technology, I seek alternative meaning(s) and more just future(s), through a material method that is both aspirational and grounded. By examining women’s traditional art/craft practices through a queer and feminist framework, I explore how expanded techniques and concerns of materiality open up ideas of possibility as well as how meaning is embedded in materials, processes, techniques and decisions.
My work centers beauty, and by that I mean care, by which I also mean life / livingness / liveliness / lifeness. I mobilize these forces toward realizing utopian longings.
Painting Statement
Speculative Abstract Rainbow-scapes. A shimmering aesthetic.
an expression of the aliveness and harmony of the natural world cultivates a felt sense of beauty in myself and in the viewer.
simultaneity as a visual method and theoretical philosophy.
humanity, a radical interdependence with the living Earth.
climate change, natural and environmental disasters, and the epicness of nature
representation and abstraction, gesture and description, chaos and harmony.
why/how is the world (so) beautiful? And why are we (Western, late capitalist, death-worshiping culture) destroying her with such abandon?
