Portfolio

About

​Jennifer Mack-Watkins is a contemporary visual artist and illustrator whose artistic aesthetic draws from a confluence of reference points, most of which include her Japanese Mokuhanga printmaking techniques and her culturally rich southern roots. Mack-Watkin's work investigates societal conformities that isolates individuals to be confined to fit into a space. This space includes the complexities of being a woman, beauty images, relationships, body image, power, and gender roles. Her work has been acquired at prominent institutions including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Library of Congress, The Metropolitan Musuem of Art, The Getty Archives and she has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Vogue and Essence. Jennifer holds a bachelor of arts in BA in studio arts from Morris Brown College, a MAT from Tufts University, and a MFA in Printmaking from Pratt Institute and is on the Board of Trustees at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center. Mack-Watkins is a recipient of the 2022 National Black Arts Festival Artist Fund, Rush Arts Philanthropic 20th Anniversary Portfolio selected artist, and the featured 2022 Schomburg Center Literary Festival.
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The Process

Japanese Woodblock

Silkscreen

" The process of printmaking allows me to experiment like a scientist. I can build the image through a series of silkscreened transparent layers or carved images using wood as medium. I am allowed to totally control the density of colors by adding drops of pigment to mix the perfect hue. Border lines are hand drawn and cut to form a hard edge. I use patterns and the female as the subject intertwined with photographic images to interrupt the plain white surface of the paper. "

---Jennifer Mack-Watkins

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