Jennifer Cecere

Growing up in Richmond, Indiana, I was a 4H girl baking cakes for the County Fair. I also began a collection of doillies,lace,and fabric destined for the goodwill, "Rescue Linens"
My first job in NYC was designing fabric, I lasted six months but became transfixed by patterns. I combine found fabrics, laces, doillies and lace with icing-like extruded paint to create objects resembling furniture. I put these domestic looking pieces together to make installations resembling rooms. "In My Room", at P.S.1 was the first.( see www.jennifercecere.com for more info.) After 9/11, I began using imagery culled from familiar Fairy Tales mixed with personal anthropology. These Mandala pieces begin with drawing with sharpie markers onto fabric. Cutting out the figures, painting them and collaging them onto other fabric, lace, quilt squares, table cloths. Lately, Women's faces dominate my work. Portraits peer out of a tangle of icing like paint and domestic linens.