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Ann
Jenkins was born in Chicago and raised in Duluth, Minnesota. She
received a BFA degree in painting from the University of Colorado,
Boulder, a graduate degree in Library Science from Western Michigan
University, and did field work at Frick Art Reference Library, New
York. She did further study at the University of Oslo International
Summer School. She has also studied with landscape painter Wolf Kahn at
the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, and with Eric Aho at the Great
River Arts Institute in Walpole, New Hampshire. Ann Jenkins’
work
has been exhibited at a number of galleries and museums in Minnesota,
Canada, and Sweden. In addition her work has been reproduced as cover
for a number of publications, including Shennandoah and Great River
Review literary magazines and The Women's Great Lakes Reader. Ann lives
and works in Duluth."The landscape of Northern Minnesota has been the primary subject of my paintings for the past 15 years. I have tried to avoid the realistic, literal image in favor of a somewhat abstracted presentation of particular locations, which hopefully resonate subtlety with the experiences, and memory of the viewer. Many of my recent paintings have become even more abstract, dramatic, and luminous, with often only the suggestion of form, simplifying the motif but challenging the viewer a little more while enhancing the mood, bringing out and heightening the more subtle colors which are often overwhelmed by the predominant dark greens and blues, browns and grays of the northern landscape. Most of my work relies on the dialog of color, which is finally an emotional response to, and vision of the world around me. I avoid the topical. I try to allow the paintings to speak for themselves and not become merely vehicles for an opinion. I try to come to some kind of agreement between reality and my imagination, Though the painting has become more abstract it does not become pure abstraction. I believe that the tie to the physical world is imperative because it is the natural world from which all vision originates and which sustains us as human beings and as artists." Ann Jenkins