The Family

Acrylic, oil, wax on board, 48 x 72 x 2, 2024

There is a desire to capture the wide emotional range of the human condition and to hold it in its complexity. I believe in the ability of art to challenge oppressive structure-- the revelation of peeling back to reveal or reclaim what is underneath or to maintain what is hidden and to create something entirely new.

I presently achieve this mainly with acrylic paint and associated mediums. I manipulate materials with steel, cloth, knives, hard plastics, and my body -- rarely using traditional tools like paintbrushes.

Jennifer Leigh Harrison is an artist, psychotherapist and social worker based in Seattle. Her art focuses on themes of movement and deconstruction in lyrical abstract form. Her organic composition is distinguished by improvised layers of stripped surfaces that house texture, color, and playfulness. Her art is currently on display in solo exhibits in Seattle, has been shown at Van Der Plas Gallery in NYC and has been jury selected for international exhibits.