Jennifer Klecker
Jennifer Klecker is an artist and educator whose art practice is an exploration of the human connection to the landscape. Her work is a search for what grounds us and moves us in understanding our sense of place.
Much of her work is created on-site and documented with photography while hiking the Pacific coast, the Sierra Nevada mountains, or hilltops in the Bay Area of San Francisco. She is interested in collaborating with natural forms and light as she encounters them.
In her fieldwork series, the act of drawing utilizes sunlight, shadows, and rock forms with set rules that become a ritual. The mark-making is a way of remembering our relationship to our changing climate, common home planet, solar system, and expansive galaxy. She invites the viewer to revisit familiar geology through new layers of light, line, and color.
Klecker studied Art Education at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, WI and received her MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2015.
COSMIC CLIFFS, DRAWING No.2, 2022
Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper
25” x 20”
$1,200 SOLD
This piece is part of a series inspired by the first images from NASA's James Webb space telescope. The drawings incorporate colors and markings found in the Carina Nebula in our galaxy.
The drawing utilizes local San Franciscan geology, radiolarian chert, and is done in collaboration with natural light and shadows from our closest star, the sun. The drawing is documented using photography.
