Jennifer Strasenburgh graduated with a B.F.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997. That was after which she had attended the Savannah College of Art and Design from 1990 to 1992. She creates her art from her own sketches and designs. She creates mixed media art on either cradled panels or on Stonehenge archival printmaking paper that she builds herself. Jennifer’s works combine layers of copper, silver and acrylic paint. She uses metals that have been treated to give them a weathered, aged richness. Each of her pieces is then sealed to protect and finish the final work. She creates her works on panel and paper in her home studio. Having a studio at home allows Jennifer the most flexibility in her creative process because she is able to work out designs and sketch for her prints, art and posters at any hour of the day. She applies some of the materials with brushes in a painterly fashion, while others she applies by hand and then she smoothes them onto the surface using her fingers.
All of her works are created on panel and paper within the flexible and comfortable environment of her home studio. She enjoys a very intimate creative process in which she’s able to handle the materials and manipulate them in an immediate way. Her intimacy with her medium allows her to create artwork that most accurately represents her goals as an artist and to portray balance, strength and beauty. Jennifer’s work has been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, including Show of Hands in Philadelphia; the Lancaster Museum of Art in Lancaster; Groundworks Art Gallery in Denver; Arvada Center for the Arts in Arvada; and the Parade of Homes, Talon’s Reach in Aurora.
