Jennifer Riordan
Original Fine Art Paintings
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About Jennifer Riordan
Jennifer Swayze Riordan was born in Dallas, Texas. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Baylor University and a Master's in Art Education from Texas Woman's University. Jennifer has taught Art to Elementary and Middle School students in Highland Park ISD in Dallas, Texas and St. James Episcopal School in Corpus Christi, Texas. While residing in South Texas, Jennifer exhibited artwork at The Art Center of Corpus Christi and K Space Contemporary.
My current work is geometric abstraction using acrylic on canvas, panel, or reverse painting on acrylic sheeting. My practice involves the use of color, geometry, symmetry, pattern and repetition as a means to evoke mood and emotion. Viewers have described my work as complicated, yet calming, intricate, and kaleidoscopic.
Current themes that I am exploring and expressing visually include transformation and re-birth, challenging a fixed mindset, recognizing when we’ve become complacent or safely stagnant, and celebrating personal growth that comes from risk-taking and failure.
My artwork is influenced by patterns found in nature, tile work, fiber arts, and tribal art, specifically Kuba Kasai velvet textiles and ancestral Puebloan pottery. I find rhythm and repetition to be meditative, soothing and mesmerizing - therapeutic to both create and view.
