Jacqueline Bishop Agai n s t
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Cover: Treading Lightly, 2012 Oil on panel 24 x 30 inches
Barrier Island, 2011 Oil on panel with antique frame 21 Âź x 15 inches
Jacqueline Bishop
Agai n s t
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Ti d e
November – December 2012
Excerpts from The Re-enchantment of Art: Jacqueline Bishop’s Imaginary Landscapes by Dr. Laura M. Amrhein, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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“Bishop’s work in the exhibition Against the Tide uses the vehicle of water, a vital source of life, to poetically explore local and global environments, connections between humans and non-humans, migration, and the delicate balance of existence in a commercially driven world.”
Opposite: Procession, 2012 Oil on panel 12 x 12 inches
Forest, 2012 Oil on Belgian linen 45 ½ x 57 Ÿ inches
Sun of My Soul, 2010 Ink on collage 11 ½ x 7 ½ inches
“Nests and trees symbolize protection—they support natural processes, plant life, and are sanctuaries. Birds have been used literally and symbolically as messengers and simultaneously refer to death and rebirth. Bishop prompts us to ask how the animals in her paintings can survive in devastated and disrupted ecosystems.�
Opposite: Of This World, 2012 Oil on panel 12 x 12 inches
Sonatina, 2010 Lithograph over archival pigment print 23 ž x 65 ½ inches Published by Zanatta Editions
Allegretto, 2010 Ink on collage 7 ½ x 5 ¾ inches
Opposite: Columbus and the World, 2011 (detail) Oil on Belgian linen 22 ¾ x 26 ¼ inches
“[Bishop’s] works uniquely and vibrantly combine social activism, metaphor and aestheticism in layered complex ways and ask us to shift our worldview.”
World View, 2010 Oil on Belgian linen 34 x 42 inches
“Queen Bess Island addresses the complexity of our ecosystems and our responsibility to them. This barrier island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana is home to once endangered Brown Pelicans or Pelicanus Occidentalis…. After the BP oil spill, the island and hundreds of pelicans and other wildlife were coated in thick black oil.”
Opposite: Queen Bess Island, 2011 Oil on Belgian linen 19 x 21 inches
“Bishop depicts trees, birds, boats, and our lonely planet itself adrift in vast seas in refuge from fiery shorelines.”
World Journey, 2011 Oil on panel 15 ¼ x 19 ¾ inches
Embedded, 2009 Oil on panel with antique frame 15 ½ x 12 ½ inches Photography: Mike Smith