You are here >
Insecta Fantasia: A Centennial Commission by Jennifer Angus
Insecta Fantasia: A Centennial Commission by Jennifer Angus
Artist Jennifer Angus brings to life the imaginations of two children, whose love of bugs gleam on the walls of two galleries in The Ballantine House, and uses exotic insects to create beautiful patterns—truly an entomologist's dream.
Horizental Tab Group Description For Insecta Fantasia, artist Jennifer Angus creates installations composed of thousands of preserved insects pinned directly to the gallery walls in repeating patterns that reference both textiles and wallpaper. Her work is influenced by the Victorian era and evokes the Victorian aesthetic of taste, clutter and exotica during a period when travel, exploration and scientific study were immensely popular.
Angus’ installation will be on view in the Ballantine House, the Museum’s restored nineteenth-century Victorian mansion. The artist has created a fictitious history of the Ballantines in which two family members were amateur entomologists.
Presenter Information Jennifer Angus is a professor in the Design Studies department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She received her education at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (BFA) and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA). Jennifer has exhibited her work internationally including Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan and Spain. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Wisconsin Arts Board grants. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison she has received annual grants from the Graduate School as well a Vilas Associate Award, the Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts and most recently a Romnes Fellowship. Her exhibition “A Terrible Beauty” at the Textile Museum of Canada was selected as “Exhibition of the Year” by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries in 2006.
Artist website.
Related Images
