Caroline Jennings

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Caroline Jennings is a native of rural West Virginia who has lived in Manhattan for most of the past twenty-five years while retaining strong ties with Appalachia. Much of her work centers upon the sense of displacement and longing experienced by those who, for a range of reasons, feel themselves to be exiles and who spend their lives mentally, emotionally, or physically stretched between two worlds. Visually she often portrays this in terms of the disconnect between middle class domesticity and one’s peripheral awareness of momentous and/or shocking events or, alternatively, between the everyday and the transcendent. Her work is most often narrative in nature, and as a writer as well as a painter she uses whatever means are best suited to the particular story she has to tell. Her writing thus informs her painting, and vice versa.

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