Gay Jensen, Fiber Artist - Contemporary Textile Art

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Pacific Northwest Artist Specializes in Textile Art

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Gay Jensen created
“Not a White Picket
Fence” for the juried
show Domestic Arts —
Between Functional
and Fine at the Sequim
Museum & Arts Center
in Sequim, WA in 2007.

Subsequent to the
Sequim Museum show,
"Not a White Picket
Fence" was exhibited
in the "All Things Not
Quilted" show at the
La Conner Quilt and
Textile Museum in
La Conner, Washington,
January-March 2009.
Following that it was
accepted for the
2009 Edmonds Arts
Festival Juried Gallery
in Edmonds, WA.

Artist Statement

"Not a White Picket Fence"

Fences mark boundaries, keep things "in" or "out," and imply characteristics about those who live behind them. In our society a house with a white picket fence symbolizes conventional social and economic domestic status. The house I live in doesn't have a fence but if it did I'd want it to celebrate creativity, not convention, and cause people to wonder about the lives lived behind it. I'd want it to be "Not a White Picket Fence."

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