Jennifer Day - About the Artist

Jennifer Day resides and works in Newburyport, Ma. A native to New England, she grew up in the Boston area and was educated at Bowdoin College and subsequently at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Having taught art at St. George's School and Phillips Academy, the artist then went on to the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania where she earned her MFA in painting under Neil Welliver. For many years, the artist has balanced the concentration on her own work with that of teaching. She is a former adjunct professor of art at Colby-Sawyer College. Jennifer Day brings a somewhat unusual approach to painting in that her pallette consists of one color, usually black, on a white background. She believes that having taught color theory and having been a colorist at one point, she can better understand the subtleties of grey. Similarly, the artist can concentrate more intensely on imagined possibilities of light and shade, much as black and white photography exposes us to a construct that can only exist in the imagination.


Colby-Sawyer College New London, NH 1997-2003 Adjunct Assistant Professor: Creative Expression, Art education Methods, Drawing, Two-dimensional Design Northern Essex Community College Haverill Ma, 1992-1997 Adjunct Insrtuctor: Color and Design, Drawing I, Drawing II, Art Therapy Shipley School Bryn Mawr, Pa, 1988, 1989 Summer Enrichment Camp, Ceramics Phillips Academy Andover Ma,1982,1983,1984, Summer Session: Intensive Studio Art Program, Painting, Visual Studies. Fay School Southboro, Ma, 1981 Summer Session: Program Director, Art St. Georges School Newport, RI 1979-1981 Full Time: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Photography, Ceramics, Art History Extracurricular: Dorm Supervisor, Admissions, Curriculum Review Modern Dance, Tennis, Costume Design University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Master of Fine Arts, Painting, 1987, Program Director: Neil Welliver School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Ma 1981-1983. Diploma Program Bowdoin College Brunswick, Me 1978 BA Studio Art and Art History, Lancaster University Lancaster, England 1976-1977 Junior Year Abroad The Copley Society of Art Newbury St, Boston, Ma New Members Show January, 2006 Anderson-Soule Gallery Concord, NH November,2004 McGowen Fine Art Concord NH "Black and White" July 2000 AVA Gallery Lebanon NH Juried exhibitons 2000,1998,2001,2002 AVA Gallery Lebanon, NH Paintings and Drawings February, 1998 Marion Graves Mugar Art Gallery Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH. Paintings and Drawings September 1997 Marion Graves Mugar Gallery Faculty Exhibitions March 1997-2002 Northern Essex Community College Haverill, Ma Faculty Exhibitions Jan 1993, May 1994 Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA. Thesis Exhibition May 1987 Ross Gallery Philadelphia, PA Student Exhibition May 1985, 1986 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Ma Museum School Annual March 1983 Jewett Hall Gallery University of Maine, Augusta, Me. Museum of Fine Arts Students Select January,1983 Museum School Gallery Boston, Ma Juried Exhibitions 1982, spring 1980, fall 1980 St. Georges School Newport RI Faculty Exhibitions 1981, 1980 Newport Art Association Newport RI Watercolor Invitational 1981 Kresge Art Center, Bowdoin College Brunswick, Me. Seniors Exhibition 1978 Bromfield Gallery Thayer St. Boston, MA "Phenomena:New Paintings" June, 2005 The River Valley Club Lebanon, NH Paintings April, 2001 The Firehouse Center for the Arts Newburyport, Ma Paintings 1996 Kling Gallery Philadelphia, PA Paintings September, 1988. Ahmed's Gallery Cambridge, Ma Paintings 1983. The Cape Playhouse Dennis, Ma. Reliefs and Paintings Summer, 1983 Constitution Quarters Charlestown, Ma. Paintings and Reliefs in Support of Commissioned Wallpiece Spring 1983 St. Mark's School Southboro, Ma Paintings March 198 Phillips Academy Andover, Ma Paintings and Prints April, 1982 Shooters, Inc. Moorestown, NJ Free-lance Computer Graphics Designer, Dubner Paintbox, 1988-1989 Bowdoin College Archives Brunswick Me Hand-made book of etchings The New England Boston Ma Immobiliare Inc Boston, Ma 1st Director's Award for Painting The Copley Society of Art Newbury St. Boston, MA January, 2006 University of Pennnsylvania Philadelphia, Pa Scholarship to study painting at La Napoule Foundation, France Summer, 1983 The Artist's Foundation Boston, Ma Commission awarded for permanent painting installed in Constitution Quarters, Charlestown, Ma. May, 1983 St. George's School Newport, RI Summer study grant for work in France Summer 1980