The Artist Portrait Project: A Photographic Memoir of Portraits Sessions with San Diego Artists, 2006-2016 [Hardcover]

After five years’ absence from San Diego’s art community, Jennifer G. Spencer returned and began to photograph the artists she became acquainted with during her thirteen-year stint as an executive director of a visual arts organization—a project that became a ten-year journey. InThe Artist Portrait Project, Spencer reveals the results of her adventure in portraiture after her retirement, and shares how this endeavor enlightened and shaped her opinion of these fifty artists and her art community. Engaging and visually stunning,The Artist Portrait Projectis a book about self-discovery and the persistence of the creative spirit.Jennifer G. Spencer is a painter/photographer who creates images using alternative photographic processes and digital imagery. Her career began as a painter back East in Massachusetts. After moving to California in the mid 1970s, her painting began to change—and during her brief business adventure in painting backdrops for photographers, her interest in photography emerged. Spencer’s curiosity and creative interests blossomed after attending Grossmont Community College, where she acquired an Associate Degree in Digital Art Media and Fine Art Photography. Her attention was drawn to photographic portraiture after her retirement from a visual arts non-profit and return to school.“Jennifer Spencer has created a very moving, compassionate, and celebratory series of portraits of a generation of tenacious San Diego artists. These creative men and women have beaten the attrition rate that so often snares artists in mid career and thereby enriched our community immeasurably through their profound influence as teachers and creators.” —Hugh M. Davies, PhD, Director Emeritus, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
“Jennifer Spencer, because of her dedicated work with the umbrella arts organization COVA, is beloved by many San Diego Artists. These artists make up the bulk of the portraits ilƒH