Hello and thank you for visiting my website!
Feel free to connect.
email: jenvzee@gmail.com
instagram @ginkgozee
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Note on photography:
I am moving away from photography to focus on studio art. I am sorry, I am NOT taking new photography clients.
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I'm a print maker, clay artist and scientific illustrator. I've hand drawn illustrations extensively for the education and exhibit departments of science and nature museums; my MSc in Biology and MFA in Art & Design make me uniquely fitted to combine the two disciplines.
For the last five years I’ve focused on printmaking. I design, carve my own blocks and then print by hand in my home studio in San Francisco. I specialize in meticulously designed, beautiful tributes to the natural world. I’ve recently added Clay to my repertoire and in particular I love the surface design technique of sgraffito.
I teach and unique interdisciplinary class combining art and biology at a local public elementary school, as well as printmaking to adults.
I have a particular fondness for marine animals, geology and non-typically-charismatic mini-fauna. I draw inspiration from geometric patterns, science illustration, Japanese woodcut and Escher. I enjoy tedious detail, precision in technique, accurate portrayal of species. I occasionally foray into mythology.
My prints are available for purchase at my Etsy shop
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Academia
MFA 2006 Art and Design - University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MSc 2003 Ecology, Behavior and Evolution - UC San Diego
BA 1999 Biology - Pomona College
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Teaching
2023 SCRAP teaching artist
2022 Sunset Communal Arts Printmaking Instructor
2022-2023 San Francisco Botanical Gardens Printmaking Instructor
2021-2023 Art Teacher for Elementary After School Program
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Publications / Features / Shows
2023 Print Exchange Exhibition at Printhouse Gallery, South Australia
2023 Solo Show, Blackbird Book Store, San Francisco
2023 The Avenues Exhibit, The Drawing Room in San Francisco
2023 The Art of Nature Exhibit, Santa Cruz Museum
2022 Artspan Open Studios Artist, San Francisco
2022 Yeti Artist Series Artist and Custom Design Artist
2022 Hudson Seed Company Seed Pack Artist and Group Show
2022 Diasporic Chinese Moon Calendar - Featured Artist
2021 Joy on Joice Street Fair hosted by Cut Fruit Collective
2021 The Great Elder Print Off Poster - For You Productions
2021 Shine on San Francisco - Golden Trees Artist
2021 Outspoken By Design - Design Group Show
2021 Create to Stop Hate
2021 Printmakers Against Racism
2020 Tinker Preschool Artist in Residence
2019 - 2022 San Francisco Bazaar at Nightlife, California Academy of Sciences
2019 Save the Snakes - King Cobra art for logo and merch