Jennifer West is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She was born in Topanga, California and received her MFA from Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, California) in 2004 and her BA from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She studied with Mike Kelley and Diana Thater at Art Center. She is known for her digitized films that are made by hand manipulating film celluloid. She has produced over 70 films since she started working this way in 2004.
35mm film print soaked and corroded with urine by Andrea Bowers, Symrin Chawla, Micah Espudo, Chris Hanke, Eli Joteva, Jack McGuinn, Peyton Regan, Julian Toca, Vidhi Todi, Bob Viera, Cameron Wells, Ariel West., Fleurette West, Peter West, Jwest. ...
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Jennifer West won a 35mm film print of Michelangelo Antonioni's film Red Desert (1964) on Russian Ebay and dragged it along the Pink Beach off the coast of Sardinia, Italy, where some scenes of the film were shot. Fragments of coral and crushed shell creat ...
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Saline bodies, water. Buckets, film. Materiality, memory. Erosion, elision. Time, travel. Spiral, Jetty. Salt Lake, Dead Sea. Jennifer West's fervent materialism is by now well documented—strewn as her films are with materials, which she then indexes in ...
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Geological elements and erosion leave marks on a strip of 70mm film that floated in the Dead Sea and soaked in clay before getting stuffed in a suitcase to be brought back to Los Angeles, where it was submerged and sat in buckets filled with mud and salt f ...
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16mm film print painted with birth control pills, writing inks and sweat - bought from a Brooklyn, New York street vendor. ...
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5,280 feet of 35mm film negative and print taped to the mile-long High Line walk way in New York City for 17 hours on Thursday, September 13th, 2012 with 11,500 visitors - the visitors walked, wrote, jogged, signed, drew, touched, danced, parkoured, sanded ...
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70mm Film Frames of Neutrino Movements - shot in 15 ft Bubble Chamber at Fermilab, Experiment 564 in Chicago - dunked in liquid nitrogen, neutrino movements outlined with invisible ink and decoder markers and highlighters, inked up by Monica Kogler and Jwe ...
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65mm film negative RAY-O-GRAM made by laying 100 foot long necklace atop the film negative, exposing it with colored flashlights - made in front of live audience in Rome, Italy - featuring 100 foot long leather necklace strung with pasta and mussel shells ...
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faded pink super 8 film print - library copy of select scenes from Jaws - from Lorain, Ohio public library - treated with black fabric dye enriched with heavy metals: iron and zinc vitamins, celluloid grated with stone, whipped with hair headbanging, impre ...
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70mm film leader rubbed with Jimson Weed Trumpet flowers, spraypainted, dripped and splattered with nail polish, sprayed with lavender mist air freshener, 2009, 46 seconds 70mm film transferred to digital video ...
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70mm film leader lined with liquid black eyeliner, doused with Jello Vodka shots and rubbed with body glitter. ...
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16mm color and b&w film neg rolled with hard boiled eggs, oranges, lemons, avocados, pickles, green apples, milk and watermelon – a remake of a scene from Vera Chytilova's 1966 film, Daisies – rolling off the bed performances by: Mariah Csepanyi, Finn ...
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16mm color negative, positive and b&w negative scratched with tumbleweed, tire treads, pine needles, sprinkled with BlackJax extreme energizers pills, coffee, donuts, hot cheetohs & doused with gasoline & gatorade ...
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Skinnydipping Carbon Beach Malibu Film – In Front of David Geffen's House (16MM color and b&w film neg sprayed with fried pickle juice, painted with Bloody Marys using, celery stalks & ash from the Malibu fires, submerged in the ocean – skinnydipping b ...
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70MM Film Leader soaked in MSG and boiling water - inscribed & stamped with the word seriously - with Viagra, Visine and Fake tanning lotion, 2008, 1 minute, 1 second 70mm film transferred to digital video ...
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70MM Film Leader Covered in Strawberry Jam, Grape Jelly and Orange Marmalade - licked and sledgehammered by Jim Shaw, Marnie Weber, Mariah Csepanyi, Bill Parks, Alex Johns, Karen Liebowitz, Roxana Eslamieh, Chaney Trotter & Jwest- a filmic restaging of mom ...
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16mm b&w and color film neg danced on with sneakers, sprayed with cherry tomatoes, rubbed with cinnamon butter buns, strawberries and candy bars – based on lyrics from Sleater Kinney, Bikini Kill and Le Tigre – food fight on the table performances by A ...
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16mm black & white film soaked in lithium mineral hot springs, pennyroyal tea, doused in mud, sopped in bleach, cherry antacid and laxatives - jumping by Finn West & Jwest. ...
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Psychosomatic Film#1 (16mm film negative soaked in energy drinks: Orange Dream Machine - Amp - Full Throttle), Psychosomatic Film#2 (16mm film negative soaked in energy drinks: Mango-a-gogo, Rockstar, Adrenaline Rush), Psychosomatic Film#3(16mm film negati ...
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Tar pits form as petroleum seeps to the surface through fissures in the Earth's crust, leaving viscous asphalt pools. To make Tar Pits Film, Jennifer West threw a strip of film into the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, still-bubbling asphalt pools which ha ...
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