JENNIFER POCHINSKI

Jennifer Pochinski is an American figurative artist. Her work is characterized by gestural marks and painterly abstractions.
Raised in Hawaii, she earned a BFA from the University Of Hawaii in 1991. She spent much of her young adulthood traveling to UK and Europe, finally settling near Athens Greece in 2003. In late 2010, she and her two children relocated to California.

My studio practice is considered a ‘space to fail’
I have no specific method for painting. As with most expressive painting it is never a linear process. For years now I collect photographic imagery - figures . environments historical paintings. They give information that you cannot get in life. I used to feel like all my paintings should be like a live performance, that they were very much of the moment. It was impossible to sustain that approach. I now feel like an author, each day writing something that feels true to me. I hope to hit on something. At the end I put it together to make a story.
Ultimately painting not about executing something or an idea well, it’s about catching lightning in a bottle.