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Jennifer Young

Jennifer creates vibrant landscapes and still life in oil, pastel, and gouache. She earned a BFA with honors from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her early work centered on the human form and exhibited at venues such as the Hofstra Museum and Purdue University.
Early in her 30-year art career she gravitated to plein air painting and found the practice both inspirational and indispensable to her development.
Jennifer’s work has garnered numerous gallery exhibitions and honors at plein air events. Corporate collectors include Westminster Canterbury, Ruth’s-Chris Steakhouse, VCU Health, Sheltering Arms Hospital, and Tuscan Sun Wines.

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Biography

Recent Exhibitions and Honors
September- October 2024: Art at the Mill juried exhibit
September 2024: Exhibiting artist, Tidelands Plein Air
September 2024: Juried artist Floyd Plein Air, “Spirit of Floyd” award winner
June 2024: 1st Place Award, Paint Main (Gloucester) quick draw
May- June 2024: Art at the Mill juried exhibit
April 2024: Exhibiting artist, Plein Air Unleashed
October 2023: Exhibiting Artist, Tidelands Plein Air
April 2023: Juried artist Coastal Virginia Plein Air
April 2023: Exhibiting Artist, Plein Air Unleashed
August 2022: Juried artist Floyd Plein Air
April 2022: Juried artist Coastal Virginia Plein Air,
April 2022: Exhibiting artist, Plein Air Unleashed
May 2021: 2nd Place Award Winner, Plein Air Roanoke
2020/2021 Juried artist Coastal Virginia Plein Air, Participating artist in Plein Air Roanoke, Participating Artist in Plein Air Unleashed (all postponed due to Covid-19)
September 2019 Plein Air Westhampton (Honorable Mention)
September 2019 Plein Air Chincoteague
September 2019, Solo exhibit for Art in the Hospitals, VCU Health
August2019: Juried artist Floyd Plein Air
May 2019: Exhibiting Artist, Plein Air Unleashed Art Festival, Whitestone, VA
September 2017 & 2018: Exhibiting Artist, Plein Air Westhampton Festival, Richmond, VA
May 2017 & 2018: Exhibiting Artist, Plein Air Unleashed Art Festival, Whitestone, VA
June 2017 Featured artist at Cabell Gallery, Lexington, VA
July 2016 & 2017: Juried artist Floyd Plein Air
September 2017: Featured artist “A Maine Experience”, Gallery Flux, Ashland, VA
May 2016: Awarded a 2-week private residency at Rose Cottage in Vinalhaven, Maine
September 2015 – September 2018 Represented Artist at Gallery Flux (closed) , Ashland, VA
August 2015: Participated in “Lay of the Land”, juried art Exhibition at Gallery Flux, Ashland, VA.
June 2015: Featured artist and demo at the Little Gallery on Smith Mountain Lake, Moneta, VA.
March 2015: Jennifer’s painting “Winter Sunset, North Run Creek”, was selected as part of the FAV15% (jury’s favorite 15% of the entries) in the March 2015 FASO/Fine Art Views BoldBrush Painting competition. -Continued-

Publications and Media
Plein Air Magazine’s Outdoor Painter, art feature, 2014
Southern Lady Magazine, Spotlight, 2011
Charlottesville Weekly, Cover Art, 2005,
Atlanta Woman Magazine, 2004
Listed artist in Lonnie Pierson Dunbier’s The Artists Bluebook since 2005; 32,000 North American Artists 16th Century – present.

Selected Corporate collections
VCU Health
Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse
Westminster Canterbury
Tuscan Sun Wines

Artist Statement

Jennifer creates vibrant landscapes and still life in oil, pastel, and gouache. She earned a BFA with honors from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her early work centered on the human form and exhibited at venues such as the Hofstra Museum and Purdue University.
Early in her 30-year art career she gravitated to plein air painting and found the practice both inspirational and indispensable to her development.
Jennifer’s work has garnered numerous gallery exhibitions and honors at plein air events. Corporate collectors include Westminster Canterbury, Ruth’s-Chris Steakhouse, VCU Health, Sheltering Arms Hospital, and Tuscan Sun Wines.

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