Artists

Jeanine Briggs

In 1995, after a long career in educational publishing, I returned to my first passion-art! In 2000, based on my concerns for the environment and my work with debris, I completed a 15-week residency at the Norcal Waste facilities, aka the San Francisco "dump." Seeing different things and seeing things differently, my imagination continues to take form through freestanding sculptures, wall sculptures, and paintings. Environmental sensibilities influence my constructive processes as well as my choice of materials. Just as nature inspires my work, I hope my work in some way serves nature by suggesting creative and conservational solutions to consumer practices. I also carry this theme into my writings and into my art workshops with children and adults. Appearing in galleries, museums, public spaces, trade shows, corporate collections, and government offices, my work has been exhibited extensively in California, and, most recently, in New York City.

Through the interweaving of salvaged fireplace curtains and wire rope and the shadows they cast on the smooth, shiny surface, my heart suggests the webs of memories and relationships that touch and define us.