A Northern California based artist, Jennifer Buehner-Varley, has been a full-time acrylic painter and fabric sculpture since 2016. Initially, a full-time stay at home mother Jennifer is now playing with themes of domesticity and the decorative arts as they intersect with feminism. Her work is a serious yet playful study of gendered labor and the paradoxes of female power. Evolving use of folk art, decoration, color, and pattern are invitations that feel both seductive and alluring yet assert in the margins of her paintings; the shadow of all that is feminine is lingering violence. Jennifer extends the possibilities and shows there is a range of ways to enter difficult conversations; the work is saturated with her fervent wish for equality, body sovereignty, harm reduction, and protection of all people.

Currently, her acrylic paintings and digital rendered "Don't Rape" project on consent, explodes with color and subversive messaging.

 
 
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