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Los Angeles • b. 1972
Jennifer Guidi (b. 1972, Redondo Beach, CA) draws from several lineages, including the visionary Modernism of the American Southwest, process-oriented minimalism, Light and Space, lyrical West Coast abstraction, and the many strains of art throughout the globe in which intense optical patterning is a driving force. Her work is also inspired by—and generates—meditative states of looking in which boundaries between the outside world and internally visualized spaces break down. Guidi makes images of what it means and feels like to see, whether this is understood to be a physical or metaphysical phenomenon. Rather than rely on the eye alone, she produces tactile surfaces in which sand, acrylic and oil mediums, and pigment are combined. The particulate nature of this mixture is reflected in her imagery, often comprised of boundless arrays of small marks arranged in radiating systems.
