CLEMENTINE WRIGHT-ZENNER: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Clementine Wright-Zenner is a ceramics, glass and mixed media artist and teacher currently residing in Boise, Idaho. She received her BFA in Ceramics from California State University Fullerton in 2016 and her MFA at Boise State University in Studio Art in 2021. Her ceramic and mixed media work focuses on the materials and natural forces of degradation and ephemerality in nature and in human interaction as it relates to cycles of birth and death. She has shown in galleries nationally and won first place for her work entitled “Caught” which resides in the CSUF permanent collection. She won the Graduate College award at BSU in 2019 for her installation “Hive.” Her work was included in the most recent Idaho Triennial at the Boise Art Museum and she had a solo show, Metamorphosis, in 2022 at Delia Dante Gallery, Boise, Idaho.
We encourage visitors to The Common Well to stop in periodically to see Clementine as she develops a new body of work over the next two months and then join us on November 3rd when we host a reception in her honor as she presents her new work in a solo exhibition. We are excited for Clementine to have “a room of one’s own” and can’t wait to see what unfolds.
Exhibition: Nov 3 - Nov 17, 2023
Reception & Pit Firing: Nov 3 • 5:30 - 8:30pm
Artist Talk & Workshop*: Nov 9 • 6pm & 7pm
Lecture is FREE. Sign up for workshop here.
Artist’s Website: www.clementinezennerart.com
August - November, 2023
BEN KONKOL: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Ben Konkol is an illustrator and animator from Idaho. Since earning his BFA in Illustration from Boise State University, his work has been regularly recognized and awarded by Communication Arts, American Illustration, 3x3 Illustration Annual, and Society of Illustrators. His work has also been commissioned and published by clients like Patagonia, Sony Music, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, The LA Times, and UCLA. His immense admiration for traditional editorial illustrators, combined with a rigorous propensity for live drawing and conceptual exploration fueled his early development as a professional illustrator. He creates bold, detailed illustrations with a focus on organic representation and the physical production of materials and marks.
For his exhibition at The Common Well, Ben showed archival ink prints on 290 GSM bamboo fibre paper and projections of digital animations. All works are for sale. For more information on Ben’s work, visit benkonkol.com.
May - July, 2023