Artist Statement and Resume

Jenvy Fox is an artist and silversmith from Sacramento, California. Her focus is on making jewelry and fine art for those that prefer an alternative aesthetic to the mainstream. She works primarily in sterling silver and natural gemstones, making heavy weighted pieces for those that are not faint of heart when it comes to accessorizing. She whips up heavy metal and punk rocks with passion and authenticity, hoping to bring an alternative look to a manufactured world.

Primarily self-taught, Jenvy Fox has been making art and jewelry in a variety of incarnations since childhood.  Rather than have the traditional lemonade stand, Jenvy made and sold intricate handmade friendship bracelets and beaded jewelry while still in grade school.  Concurrently, her love for two-dimensional arts blossomed, passing through periods of mostly colored pencil drawings then into the realm of acrylics and multimedia, until finally branching out into “small” metal arts.  While developing artistically, she also attended college, receiving a Master’s Degree in Liberal Arts, with a focus on Postmodernity, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy.  In recent years, Jenvy returned to making jewelry, as a silversmith, coming full circle to where her love for creating began.

In her two-dimensional work, Jenvy is influenced by a variety of Modern artists including Picasso, Dali, Kahlo, Pollock, and Mondrian and is inspired by Postmodern philosophy, contemporary technology, nature, unconventional beauty, counterculture, and music.

In her jewelry design, Jenvy is strongly influenced by her own personal tastes, which frequently go under-represented in the marketplace.  With small hands and dreams of heavy metal, Jenvy found that her subversive grunge-punk aesthetic was typically reserved for jewelry in men’s sizes and styles.  She uses her work to bring femininity to the grunge-punk aesthetic, while at the same time expanding traditionally men’s jewelry styles to include smaller fingers that also seek to carry heavy metal and punk rocks.  Ultimately, the purpose of her work is to break gendered expectations in jewelry fashion and to express herself in a way that feels authentic, which for her has never been dainty or elegant.

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RÉSUMÉ

Education

B.A. in Philosophy, California State University, Sacramento.  Graduated in June 2004.  Emphasis in Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Religious Studies, Eastern Philosophy, and Latin.

M.A. in Liberal Arts, California State University, Sacramento.  Graduated in June 2007.  Emphasis in Postmodern Philosophy, Culture and Media, and Religious Studies.

Web Presence

• JenvyFox.com = Online blog, gallery, and artist information.
• Etsy.com/shop/JenvyFoxArt = Handmade sterling silver  jewelry.
• Instagram: @jenvyfox = Handmade sterling silver jewelry.
• Instagram: @jenvyfoxapproved = Personal collection destash.
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/JenvyFoxArt/

Solo and Group Exhibitions (Two-dimentional art)

• 2015-2016, “Jenvy Fox Rocks” Featured at Harmony Rogue Interiors, Sacramento, CA
• April 2015, Studio 10, WEAVE Benefit Group Show, Sacramento, CA
• March 2015-January 2016, Son of a Bean, Sacramento, CA
• September-October 2014, Blackbird, Sacramento, CA
• May 2014, RAW Group Show, Ace of Spades, Sacramento, CA
• July-October 2013, Clubhouse 24, Sacramento, CA
  
• June 2013, Denim Spot, Sacramento, CA
• May-June 2013, Solo Display, Courtney Cuts, Sacramento, CA
• March 2013, Solo Show, Sugar Shack Boutique, Sacramento, CA
• February 2013, Eye Heart the Art Group Show, Bodytribe, Sacramento, CA
• January 2013, Animal Attraction Group Show, Sacramento Temporary Comtemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• 2012, Solo Show, Clubhouse 24, Sacramento, CA
• 2012, Solo Show, Integrative Wellness/Peel’d, Sacramento, CA
• 2012, Gals With Glasses Group Show, Level Up Lounge, Sacramento, CA
  
• 2012, Icons Solo Show, Level Up Lounge, Sacramento, CA
• 2012, La Casecha/the Harvest, Human Trafficking Awareness Event, Group Art Display, Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Learning Center and Cooking School, Sacramento, CA
• 2012, Fair Trade is Fashionable, 2nd Friday Art About Group Show, French Cuff Boutique, Davis, CA
• 2012, Rock Show, 2^nd Saturday Group Show, Integrate Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
• 2012, 2^nd Saturday Group Show, French Cuff Boutique, Sacramento, CA
• 2012, The Technocrat Collection Solo Show, Sugar Shack Boutique, Sacramento, CA
• 2012, Coffee + Chocolate Labor Trafficking Awareness Event, Sol Collective, Sacramento, CA
• 2012, Voices of Hope Human Trafficking Awareness Show, Mondo Bizarro, Sacramento, CA
• 2011, 2^nd Saturday Group Show, Integrate Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
• 2011, 2nd Saturday Duo Show, Sugar Plum Vegan, Sacramento, CA
• 2011, VOX5, Vox, Sacramento, CA
• 2011,  She, Vox, Sacramento, CA
• 2011, Green, Vox, Sacramento, CA
• 2011, Look Beneath the Surface, Vox, Sacramento, CA
• 2011, Look Beneath the Surface, Delta Venus, Davis, CA
• 2010, Textures and Textiles Solo Show, Sugar Shack Boutique, Sacramento, CA
• 2010, Cambodian Flowers, Roseville Tower Theater, Roseville, CA
• 2010, Dispatch: A Mail Art Show, Bodytribe, Sacramento, CA
• 2010, Community Forum on Human Trafficking, Riverside Wesleyan Church, Sacramento, CA
• 2010, Let Me Count the Ways, Vox, Sacramento, CA
• 2010, Look Beneath the Surface, Vox, Sacramento, CA
• 2009, 2^nd Saturday Human Trafficking Awareness Show, Opening Doors, Sacramento, CA
• 2009, Women Uncovered, Side Show Studios, Sacramento, CA
• 2008, Curious Band of Artists, Brick House Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• 2008, 2^nd Saturday Solo Show, R15, Sacramento, CA
• 2007, Holiday Bonanza, CoolCat Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• 2007, Painting for Paws, CoolCat Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• 2007, Alter Egos, CoolCat Gallery, Sacramento, CA

Awards

• 2^nd Place in Youth Category at the 1999 California State Fair.
• Honorable Mention, Design an Ad 1997
• Honorable Mention in Youth Category at the 1995 Elk Grove Western Festival.

Features

• June 2014, YouTube.  Jenvy Fox presented by RAW:Sacramento – YouTube.  Art and jewelry featured, along with artist interview.
• January 2010, KXTV Channel 10 News.  Statistics, Mixed Media; Pieces of You, Acrylic; and Human Trafficking Awareness, Photography Display.  Art pieces featured and interview for 2010 Look Beneath the Surface Art and Information Event.
• January 2010, Common Ground.  KCRA Channel 3.  Statistics, Mixed Media; Pieces of You, Acrylic; and Human Trafficking Awareness, Photography Display; Rebecca, Acrylic; Jane, Acrylic; Marla, Acrylic; Elizabeth, Acrylic.   Art pieces featured and interview for 2010 Look Beneath the Surface Art and Information Event.