Jennifer Delos Reyes is an artist originally from Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Her theoretical and studio research interests include: relational aesthetics, group work, interactive media and artists’ social roles. She has exhibited videos, installations, and site-specific participatory work across North America and Europe. In 2006 she completed an intensive workshop, Come Together: Art and Social Engagement, at The Kitchen in New York. She has received numerous grants and awards including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Masters Grant. Jennifer has recently mounted her MFA exhibition, a conference on socially engaged art practices titled Open Engagement: Art After Aesthetic Distance. In the fall of 2008 she began teaching in the Social Practice Program with Harrell Fletcher at Portland State University. As an artist Lori Gordon investigates the structure and power of belief, creating projects that attempt to decipher both humanity's and her own connection with the universe. Through collaborative endeavors, she explores the distance between coincidence and intention, with an emphasis on setting up moments that deviate from the expected. In some cases, she is more interested in providing the organized framework around which potential interactions may occur. With all her work, she is more interested in the journey than the destination. |