Jennifer Markowitz

Stimulus Mask III, 2021
Hand embroidery on silk organza
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The present works, part of the artist’s ongoing “Covid Art” project, memorialize objects that have come to signify the chaos and uncertainty imposed by the last two years. The three “Stimulus Masks” reference face masks worn to help stop the spread of COVID-19 and are decorated with imagery of stimulus checks issued by the federal government to aid those financially affected by the pandemic.


ABout the Artist

Jennifer Markowitz is a textile artist in Raleigh, NC. Her work has been shown at Artspace, The Nasher Museum, Frank Gallery, CAM Raleigh, Dayton Society of Artists, St. Louis Art Guild, Block Gallery, The Arts Center Highland Park, The National Humanities Center, Weems Art Gallery and VAE. She is a two- time recipient of the United Arts Career Development Grant and was the 2020 Emerging Artist Resident at Artspace NC.

 

 Her solo show, Fleshmap: My Unravelling Geographies premiered at Artspace in December, 2021. She was also a Brightwork Fellow at Anchorlight where her first solo exhibition, Fleshmap: My Bipolar Embroidered Geographies, showed in November 2019.

 

Before turning to textiles, Jennifer spent 25 years directing environmental theatre throughout the US, Scotland, Ireland, Israel, and England, where she received an M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick. She has taught Psychogeography, Performance Theory, Site-Based theatre and Postdramatic Theatre in the UK at the universities of Warwick, Birmingham, Manchester, Portsmouth, and Plymouth. In the US, she has taught Theatre classes at DePaul University, Columbia College Chicago and University of Notre Dame, and Embroidery classes at Artspace and Meredith College.

 

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