Jennifer Mendoza Artist's Statement

My work consists of portraits of members of my immediate and extended family. They are people with or for whom I experience love, fear, respect, affection, pity, anger, pride, sympathy, humor and every shade of emotion that lies among these. These are the people who I am closest to and yet about whom I have much to learn.

I deliberately choose to portray these images at a scale that is noticeably larger than life, with the subject at the foremost of the picture plane. The purpose of this is to eliminate distractions that might influence the viewer, and to force confrontation. My intent is not to simply record a likeness, but to capture a moment of one person relating to another.

Jennifer Mendoza                            

Born:  Brooklyn, New York, 1976

Selected Exhibitions: *solo exhibition
* Intimates, The Consulate General of the Philippines, New York, NY, March 2000

*Drawings, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA, March 1999

Witness, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA, November 1998

The University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy
Juried Exhibition,  Athens, GA, February 1997 and  February 1998

Awards and Honors:
The University of Georgia Alumni Foundation Scholarship
The HOPE Scholarship
The University of Georgia Honors Program
Presidential Scholar 
Dean's List 
All-American Scholar
Delta Epsilon Iota, National Honor Fraternity

Education:
The University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA,1999
 BFA, drawing and painting, Cum Laude, with Honors in Art

The University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy, 1996 and 1997