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Jen Bervin
Remote Access Artist Talks: Close Reading with Jen Bervin and Anton Stuebner, 2021
Recorded May 12, 2021 (29:51 minutes)
MORE about this artworkIn our latest Remote Access Artist Talk, artist Jen Bervin talks with gallery director Anton Stuebner about close reading, and the importance of language and form in both Emily Dickinson's work and Bervin's practice. This talk is presented in conjunction with "Doing and Undoing," Bervin's debut solo exhibition at the gallery, on view April 17 - May 29, 2021.
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Jen Bervin
Virtual Walkthrough of Doing and Undoing with California College of the Arts, 2021
Recorded April 23, 2021 via Zoom for On/View, hosted by CCA Exhibitions and organized and moderated by Emily Markert and Jaime Austin
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Jen Bervin
The Dickinson Composites Series (The Composite Marks of Fascicle 38), 2008
Cotton batting, muslin, and hand-dyed silk thread
72 x 96 inches
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 76 "Sloth", 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
48 x 30 inches
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
Sloth
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 169 "Grasped by God -", 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, thread
2 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
Grasped by
God -
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 207 "In vain to punish Honey", 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
6 x 25 1/2 inches
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
In vain
to punish
Honey /
it only
sweeter
grows /
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 287 "Most Arrows", 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
4 1/2 x 30 inches
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
Most Arrows
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 380 and "Silks", 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread; hand-dyed cotton batting, muslin, mull, silkscreen
9 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches each; 19 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches overall
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
380:
The Blood is more
showy/gaudy than the
Breath
But cannot
dance as well –
380a:
e of Silks.
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 401 "The Infinite a sudden guest", 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
8 x 26 1/4 inches (top); 6 x 28 1/2 inches (bottom); 16 x 28 inches overall
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
401:
The Infinite a
sudden Guest
Has been assumed
to be –
401a:
But how can that
stupendousness come
which never went away?
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 752 and 752a "Emerging from an Abyss", 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
14 1/4 x 24 inches (top); 14 1/4 x 23 1/2 inches (bottom); 29 1/2 x 24 inches overall
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
Emerging from
an Abyss and
entering it again –
that is Life, is
it not?
Could
[text truncated by tear]
I do
her sister
spoken f[ ]
with he[ ]
when they
surprise
after her
a the
of her A[ ]
I should
value [ ]
insatiable[?]
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 769 "'Tumultuous privacy of Storm'", 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
43 1/2 x 27 3/4 inches
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
"Tumultuous
privacy
of Storm"
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 822 and 822(a) "Thronged only with music", 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
7 x 37 1/2 inches (top); 7 x 38 1/4 inches (bottom); 16 x 38 1/4 inches overall
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
It is very still in the
world now – Thronged
only with music like the
Decks of
Birds –
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 838 and 838a "I hope you have the power of hope -", 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
4 x 37 1/4 inches (left); 3 1/2 x 36 inches (right); 4 x 85 inches overall
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
I hope you have
the power of
hope –
close – Anguish has but so many
throes then unconsciousness just claims it
seals it
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 853 "Flowers are so enticing", 2021
Cotton batting, blue rule, muslin, mull, silver thread
22 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
Flowers are
so enticing
I fear that
they are
sins – like
gambling
or Apos-
tasy –
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 861 "A climate of escape", 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, light rule, silkscreen (mourning stationery), muslin, mull, silver thread
9 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
to [ ]
might [ ]
a climate of
escape is Fondness
natural to –
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 869 "Science is very near us -" , 2021
Cotton batting, muslin, mull, silver thread
6 1/2 x 32 1/4 inches
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
Science is very near us –
I found a megatherium
on my strawberry –
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 876 and 876a "If Heaven is negative", 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, pink rule, muslin, mull, silver thread
21 x 45 1/2 inches each; 21 x 46 inches overall
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
to know whether
we are in
Heaven or on
on Earth is
one of the
most impossible
of the minds
decisions, and but
I think it
the balance
always leans in
favor of the
negative – if
Heaven is negative
most - Excess?Any fortune bestepped uponus by a de[illegible] GodFor he knewwhat was inmen – I remember cast waywith distinctness and sorrowToday hasgratitudes of
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Jen Bervin
Close Reading 877: Train up a Heart, 2021
Hand-dyed cotton batting, blue rule, muslin, mull, silver thread
28 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (triangle)
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MORE about this artworkThe text reads:
Train
up a
Heart in
the way
it should
go and as
quick as it
can twill
depart from
it
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Jen Bervin
Still from Faire et défaire c’est travailler / Doing and undoing it’s working, 2021
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