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Historic traditions of landscape are abstracted through a diverse lexicon of marks and process responsive gestures. Each piece, made separately by each artist, depicts natural rhythms and systems–such as seasons, weather, and geologies of the Mountain West – and is influenced by comics and sumi-e painting. The pieces are brought together to collaboratively create an organic and accretive wall collage playing with scale, remediation, growth, feelings of being in nature and perceptions of the forces and energies of the world.
Lord and Phillips have been collaborating for more than two decades.
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bio(s)
Jennifer Lord is an artist, researcher and taijiquan teacher. They received their MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and their undergraduate degree from Naropa University. Lord was a 2024 Rough Gems curator at Union Hall for their exhibition Dirty Abstraction. They study and teach T’ai Chi Ch’uan with Rocky Mountain T’ai Chi Ch’uan. Lord has been a resident at Mountain Water, a land restoration project that combines contemplative practice with creative expression. They are always reading several books concurrently. Born in Salt Lake City, they live, work, and teach in Boulder, Colorado. Their work is held in several private collections.
Noah Travis Phillips is a collage artist working with their private media archive of “made, found, and modified” images to interrelate the personal, mythological, occult, cultural, and ecological. Their practice explores the posthuman and the Anthropocene through a range of digital and physical formats. In tandem, they aim to subtly insert themselves into art history by cultivating a personal legend or parafiction.
They are an artist, educator, and scholar. (BA, Naropa University, Fine Art and Environmental Studies; MFA, University of Denver, Emergent Digital Practices). They are Assistant Professor & FabLab (Z-Space) Coordinator at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. They have exhibited extensively locally, nationally, internationally, and virtually.