Jennifer Sarah Blakeslee Artist Profile | Call for Entries: The Female Gaze

Founded in 1931, DVAA is an intergenerational community space and art gallery with the core mission of Building Community Through Art. We foster an artist membership that both showcases individual voices and encourages collective collaboration, providing monthly exhibitions and programming, all at no cost to visitors. Throughout the year, we regularly partner with individuals, organizations, institutions, and businesses around the city to further spotlight the diverse talents held by our Philadelphia neighbors and how our interests align.

Sarah R. Bloom is an accomplished artist and photographer based in the Philadelphia region. Her compelling photographs have been featured in The Daily Mail, Philadelphia Magazine, and The Huffington Post. Named Best Visual Artist by Philadelphia Magazine in 2015, her work has been exhibited at notable venues including the State Museum of Pennsylvania, The Perkins Center for the Arts, The Woodmere Art Museum, The Biggs Museum, and The Delaware Contemporary.

Sarah is a member of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Da Vinci Art Alliance (DVAA), and Hidden City Philadelphia. She serves on the DVAA Board and has organized international juried exhibitions for the Women’s Caucus for Art.

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Jennifer Sarah Blakeslee

Jennifer Sarah Blakeslee is a photographer, artist, and writer who’s been based in the Hudson Valley for nearly 30 years.

Statement

Anything and everything is interesting to me when seen through the lens of a camera (which can be my iPhone, a DSLR, or a 75-year-old box camera). My work is less about formality and more about trying to capture the fleeting soul of a thing, finding new ways to present a captured moment. And those moments could be anything—a smiling face, a rusty car, a roiling river, an abandoned building, a sunset throwing shadows across a plane at an airport in Detroit. I'm driven to seek the elements of an essence, waiting to be teased out from behind the pixels.

State

NY