Bio:
Jentzen Mooney is 40-year-old student whose first art course at SPSCC was print making from the help of his talented classmates and incredible professor Bruce Thompson, this course made huge impact on building my creative confidence and exploring styles and perspectives as well as experimenting while printmaking. Jentzen recently completed is AA Degree at SPSCC and was accepted to University of Washington and will study ASL, Art, Linguistics and Anthropology.
Jentzen is a Para-Educator in the North Thurston School District and works in Life skills and Medically fragile classrooms.
Previously Jentzen has worked as a Web application programmer and tester. Jentzen worked in Los Angeles in Film VFX, Video Games and Animation.
Before that worked he for King County Access Bus program as Transportation Supervisor for 4years.
In Jentzen's free time he likes learning languages, sewing and volunteering for Native Plants Salvage Project, NW trails and National Parks Marmot Monitoring Project with his wife. He also claims to be an avid popcorn maker!
Artist Statement:
All of my printmaking projects were created on site at SPSCC community college I was grateful to the staff that offered studio time for printmaking students! This piece titled “Twirl from Above” started as every geometric and ridge piece drafted with color pencils (see fig. A). However, my test block carving did not create the same feeling as my draft drawings and all thought I had sense of the colors I wanted to use they also lack harmony.
Influences: My influences for this piece were first inspired by the colors my classmates were mixing for their prints which got me experimenting with which colors to use and mix.
Inspirations: My inspiration after my first cut to block dresses of Mexican art and tradition of Ballet Folklórico.
Materials and Process: A single 8x10 linoleum block and 6 colors water soluble ink block print ink. This is 4-layer reductive print.