DaveandJenn are now represented by TrépanierBaer.
www.trepanierbaer.com

"The composite world of DaveandJenn is somewhat autobiographical, created by our shared and oversaturated minds as a means to process and order the world around us. We work to create our own history and mythology.

Make-Believe, Science, Art History and Hearsay: these are cornerstones to our shared inner landscape.

We aim to challenge the traditional definitions of painting in our own way; pushing our materials in order to create complex, multi-layered, over-the-top paintings that are the physical embodiment of the imagined world that inhabits them.

By further focusing on the mutation of our medium and by experimenting with the ways in which paintings can be formed, viewed and installed we want to build up a practice that blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and installation."


Artists’ Biography

Jennifer Saleik and David John Foy both received their Fine Art Diplomas in 2003 from Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton. In 2004 they formed as the team DaveandJenn. Together in 2006, they went on to earn their BFAs with distinction from the Alberta College of Art and Design.

They were shortlisted for the Royal Bank of Canada’s Canadian Painting Competition in 2006 and 2009. In 2010 DaveandJenn were awarded the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Biennial Emerging Artist Award and in 2011 they were included on the long list for the Sobey Art Award.

They have exhibited throughout Canada and abroad.

Jeffrey Spalding selected their work for inclusion in the Toronto Art Fair Special Project Exhibition HEARTland in 2009 . That same year they were also selected for a special project’s space at NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art in Chicago. Their work was included in the Montreal city wide arts festival “Extreme Painting” by festival founder Benjamin Klein in the summer of 2010. That autumn DaveandJenn collaborated with Canadian painter Ron Moppett for the Southern Alberta Art Gallery’s exhibition "On Your Marks", curated by Ryan Doherty.

They have been featured in publications such as Canadian Art, Border Crossings Magazine and Magenta Publishing’s Carte Blanche 2: Painting.

DaveandJenn’s work has been collected by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, The Calgary Civic Art Collection and The Royal Bank of Canada.

They have also received project grants and support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Canada Council for the Arts.

DaveandJenn currently live and work in Calgary, Alberta.




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