{"id":34503,"date":"2019-11-07T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=34503"},"modified":"2019-11-07T06:10:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T14:10:07","slug":"jen-mann-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/07\/jen-mann-2\/","title":{"rendered":"jen mann &#8230; in vancouver TONIGHT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/07\/jen-mann-2\/jenmann-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34884\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jenmann-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"7190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sigh.<\/em> I love everything she does, every time she does it. These are a few of the most recent oil paintings by Toronto based artist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jenmann.com\/\">Jen Mann<\/a>&#8230; and you can see them at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galleryjones.com\/\">Gallery Jones<\/a> in Vancouver starting\u00a0<strong>TONIGHT! <\/strong>Her new show, titled<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.galleryjones.com\/work#\/artists\/represented-artists\/jen-mann\">METONYMY,<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>opens tonight,\u00a0<strong>Thursday November 7th, at 5pm<\/strong>. Here is the gallery&#8217;s description of this must-see show:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Jen&#8217;s first solo exhibition at Gallery Jones, is diving deep into the culture of celebrity, social media and constructed personas. Through a variety of media (film, sculpture and primarily painting), Mann employs the masking tools available in this hyper-selfconscious age to question perception and ideas of identity. With herself as the subject, obfuscated by luminescent layers of distraction such as glossy wigs, theatrical make-up and the text of magazine covers, in METONYMY Mann challenges our definition of real as it relates to the self.&#8221; November 7, 2019 ~ December 4, 2019<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jen will be there, and you should be too.\u00a0<strong>GO!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>ps. Ooooh, last minute addition to the post, because these photos just arrived in my inbox &#8230; a sneak peek of the install:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/07\/jen-mann-2\/jenmann_install\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34892\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jenmann_install.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"2444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jenmann_install.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jenmann_install-72x300.jpg 72w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/jenmann_install-245x1024.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh. My. <em>Word.<\/em> Those magazine paintings have spines on the side! And that GIGANTIC diptych? I have no words, just these &#8230;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>\u2665 \u2665\u00a0\u2665<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. I love everything she does, every time she does it. These are a few of the most recent oil paintings by Toronto based artist\u00a0Jen Mann&#8230; and you can see them at Gallery Jones in Vancouver starting\u00a0TONIGHT! Her new show, titled\u00a0METONYMY,\u00a0opens tonight,\u00a0Thursday November 7th, at 5pm. Here is the gallery&#8217;s description of this must-see show: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[308,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34503"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34899,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34503\/revisions\/34899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}