Hobart and William Smith Colleges

BY ANDREW WICKENDEN ’09

Through her experiments with form and technique, artist Jenny Wu ’12 is searching for work that no one else could do.

Since leaving HWS, Jenny Wu ’12 has traded her paint brushes and canvas for an X-Acto knife and silicone dog food mats. With these nontraditional materials, she has refined her method of creating “painstakingly clustered bits and bands [that] have never appeared more unified, or more redolent of the wider world,” as the Washington Post noted in a review of Wu’s spring show at Morton Fine Art. “From the ways they shimmer and undulate…Wu’s painting-sculpture hybrids appear to be delicate. But an unexpected aspect of the artist’s creations is divulged by one of her characteristically whimsical titles: ‘Work Out So Hopefully I Can Be Strong Enough to Carry My Paintings.’.… [M]ade from thick multiple coats of latex paint that have been poured, dried and then cut into pieces…[t]he resulting artworks are as heavy in weight as they are light in effect.”