WhoMadeWho Acrylic Painting Live w/ Canadian Abstract Portrait Artist - Jenny Long Pt.1

Canadian Acrylic Abstract Portrait Artist Jenny Long - Live Painting for upcoming exhibit "Wildly Profound" inspired by WhoMadeWho, a Copenhagen-based experimental pop trio starring Jeppe Kjellberg, Tomas Barfod & Tomas Høffding) and Okanagan based Pro Canadian Superbike Racer & SuperbikeWanderer Marcel Irnie. #AcrylicPainting #AbstractPainting #WhoMadeWho

"Wildly Profound" show launch February 19th to March 23, 2021 @TheLongGallery&Studio in Penticton BC, Canada.
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How it all started with WhoMadeWho #inspiration #artistconnect - MEGA Lean-To Fire featuring WhoMadeWho Dance Party | Dirtbike Survivor Man & Naked Girl (Jenny Long) https://youtu.be/H5ziNS1v9Ro

"My work merges the school of abstract expressionism with the act of portraiture. In doing so, the paint itself is figurative--it is just as important as the person it is describing. The language of the ground is heated by emotional, instinctual play with the paint, which allows for the figure to be more than an individual caught in time, but an essence of being."
- Jenny Long

Live painting has become a major player in Long's career--it not only challenges her to bring a personal, intimate practice into a public realm (becoming a form of performance art in a way) but it also feeds her need to be intuitively inspired and channel the energies that are present rather than carrying out the motions of pre-meditated work. Her paintings come to life with life itself.

JENNY LONG graduated in 2003 from the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at what originally was Okanagan University College in Kelowna. Before her studies at OUC, Long lived in Denmark for a year as a Rotary exchange student, which allowed her the opportunity to absorb a foreign culture and in travelling, realized her desire for visual expression. For years after her studies Long showed commercially with the Art Ark Gallery in Kelowna where she gained a strong reputation for her abstract portraits. A series of steady commissions followed + Long has since continued creating custom artwork for a multitude of clients whether in the form of portraits or pure abstraction. Her passion for painting extends to her students she teaches at the Long Gallery + Studios, at Legend Distilling in Naramata and within the school system in the Okanagan. She is thrilled about nurturing the growth of the exciting group of resident artists at he studios as well as put on exciting contemporary exhibitions at the Long Gallery.