Jenny McMaster

Jenny McMaster's art was recently purchased by the City of Ottawa. Jenny's work combines painting, textiles and stitch work. Her recent work employs the media of handmade paper and encaustics, to examine the creases and contours of clothing as a topography of the wearer's experience. In Between the Lines and Tight Laced folds and seams become road maps of a built environment on the human body.

In Transit and Archways and Stitchlines depicted urban spaces and explored architecture and clothing as second skins. Another series, Retrievals and Alterations, recovers the stories and faces of artist models and other half remembered women, through mixed media works. Her interest in fabric, external encasements and feminist concerns lead to a collaboration with fellow Stables artist Karina Bergmans in the Cake Show. This performance featured both cake dresses and fake cakes delving into both sexual politics and modern ritual.
McMaster has exhibited her work at VAV Gallery (Concordia University) and Gallery Shodan in Montreal, the Toronto Alternative Fashion Week, Gallery 1313, Engine Gallery and AWOL in Toronto. She has shown her work at Blink, the OSA Gallery, Pukka Gallery, Art Guise, 7A Studio, Hintonburg Arts Park and Phillip Craig Studio in Ottawa.

She recently curated a group show for Concordia University's VAV Gallery featuring the work of 17 art education students. While living in Toronto McMaster curated the group show Metroscapes and the outdoor performance and installation exhibition Parkette, both for Gallery 1313. While living in Ottawa she curated several exhibits for Carleton University Art Gallery including Urban Skins: The Prints of George Hawken.
Some of her published works include, Urban Skins a catalogue, for CUAG. “Curator’s Notes: Territories of Mind and Spirit: Land and Space in Inuit Art”, Inuit Art Quarterly, “Curator’s Notes: Private Myths and Public Dreams: Inuit Art and Surrealism,” Inuit Art Quarterly (Ottawa). “Tanja Perskaja,” Glencairn Museum Newsletter, “Balzac, Serusier and Gauguin,”Glencairn Museum Newsletter (Philadelphia).
Jenny McMaster has worked at the Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery at Concordia University (Montreal), DeLeon White Gallery, Spadina Museum (Toronto), Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa) and Glencairn Museum (Philadelphia).
Jenny McMaster has just completed a Masters in Art Education at Concordia University. She also has a Masters in Modern Religious Thought and Culture, and a Bachelors in Art History from Carleton University.