Jenn Doyle Crane

About
Jenn Doyle Crane is an artist, curator, and creative entrepreneur in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jenn studied painting and printmaking at Ringling School of Art and Design and the NY Studio Program under the New School. She has worked at the Guggenheim and Brooklyn museum, as well as the San Francisco Arts Commission, where she curated public art programs and oversaw the longterm care and maintenance of the civic art collection. Jenn currently serves as the Director of Special Projects at Atthowe Fine Art Services, a proud employee-artist-owned cooperative venture focused on the conscientious stewardship of arts and culture. She is a certified instructor for R&F Handmade Paints and offers monthly workshops at Norton Factory in Oakland, CA.

Artist Statement
My paintings are entanglements of the natural and manufactured world rooted in wonder and awe. I am inspired by the delicate, organic forms of Kokedamas or moons in a cosmos of my own making, where loose botanical studies prompt an exploration of nature and human influence. In my current body of work, I compose imaginative botanicals using layers of beeswax and resin in conjunction with manufactured nature, such as fake flowers, They are an invitation to the viewer to contemplate the delicate balance of nature and nurture, where our notions of the natural are beautifully challenged and sometimes erased.