Jenal Dolson
February 11 – March 10, 2017
Artificial Paradise
Tempus Projects presented Artificial Paradise, by Jenal Dolson in Tempus Projects’ Project Space. Jenal Dolson was the third artist in residence to spend one month in the Tempus Projects residency program, and to have an exhibition housed in the Project Space for one month following her residency.
Dolson’s paintings are loosely based on a framework of landscape with notions of place, time, memory – a metonymy based in abstraction. Referencing themes of memory and sentiment of object/place, she abstracts perspective in a way that puts aerial views together with horizon lines and still make reference to the foreground, middle, and background as well as interlacing the systems of classifying maps in a choroplethic/geologic way.
Jenal Dolson graduated from the University of Waterloo with an Honors B.A specializing in Painting and earned her M.F.A at the University of South Florida in 2020. She has been living and working in Toronto for the past 7 years. She is a recipient of the Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Award, Toronto Arts Council Visual Artist Project Grant, and the Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant. She has exhibited in Canada and the U.S.A.
“The residency was great in that it was self- directed, but I was invited to attend events in the gallery also where I met local artists and interacted with the community. These activities, paired with my studio practice, helped me to keep actively speaking about my work, my process and how to incorporate those things into my life which is invaluable as a practicing artist.”
