Jennifer Scheuer, 2019
OSGF
Eliza Moore Fellow, 2019
Jennifer Scheuer is an artist and collaborative printer whose work focuses on lithography and the history of print. She currently holds a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University. Her artistic research is based on plants, medicine, the body and healing throughout history.
“I have been working with archives and historical books in my artistic research and greatly value the time to spend with historical and contemporary primary documents,” Jennifer said. “Dedicated time at [Oak Spring] was an opportunity to create new series of work...and for internal growth in understanding of the relationship between humans and plants.”
Jennifer spent much of her two week residency in the Oak Spring Garden Library, researching both herbals and the Doctrine of Signatures (a concept from the early 16th century which states that plants resembling certain body parts can be used to treat ailments in those body parts). Jennifer’s residency provided her with the time to develop new imagery and an artist book exploring scholarship, gardening, art, and the earth.
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