NAME: Jenevieve Hubbard
BIRTH PLACE:
BIOGRAPHY
“…sacred and profane are two modes of being in the world, two existential situations assumed by man in the course of his history.”
Mircea Eliade
The Sacred & The Profane
I spent my early childhood years in Alaska, among the natives of the Pilot Station Traditional Village where I was lovingly and generously taught their sites, smells, sounds and stories. I can still remember the quiet beauty of an Eskimo woman skinning a seal with an Ulu on the beach. I have spent the better part of my adult life both mentally reliving the mythologies created by my childhood and creating new mythologies in a starkly contrasting urban environment.
Using non-traditional painting materials such as soil and tea as well as acrylics and inks, my paintings become a record of dualistic tendencies between my instinctual self and the part of my psyche that maintains order. In the process of creating painted mythologies, I draw from elemental themes including the interconnection of birth and death, indigenous mythologies, totem animals, gain and loss and our attempts to navigate the spiritual fall-out of a disconnected and isolated modern existence.
I currently live and work in Salt Lake City, Utah.
