Artist Bio / CV

JAY JANSEN is a sculpture artist based in New York originally from Seattle. Ms Jansen uses found objects and discarded materials that demands her viewer to look closer — often engaging more than one of our senses. Drain hair that is usually discarded in disgust made into a beautiful pantsuit plays with the mind - is it gross? is it stunning? Hopefully all of the above. 900 Fish Oil Pills look stunning in the sunlight but when the viewer gets closer the smell of fish radiates from the glistening mass — dazzling the eyes and accosting the nose. 100Hairballs — a 100 piece series made from the brushings of her black cat, Büs — changes the idea of the putrid mass of vomited up hairball into perfect spheres to find humor in new form. Natural materials have always caught her fancy — a regular stone is transformed by the inherent line made by sediment to create a wishing rock — collected on the beaches of the PNW and brought back to New York to make a 30 pieces series “Wishing for a …” is made of 370 stones — each piece bringing a new wish to the world. Continuing to find treasured materials to question our reality of worthiness is the goal of every piece.