Jennifer Moses
Artist Bio
Jennifer Anne Moses grew up in the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC, where her parents as well as the larger community were oriented toward politics and law and she spent as much time as possible in the lovely, sun-filled Art Room of her school, where she painted with joy and freedom. In high school, all that joy and freedom came to a crashing halt, and she hung up her paintbrushes and pencils. After graduating with a B.A. from Tufts University in 1981, she moved to New York City for a series of jobs in magazines, a short-lived career that she eagerly left at the birth of her first child. That child became the excuse she needed to do what she wanted, which was to stay home and write. Two more children came, as did several moves—from NYC to L.A., from L.A. to DC, and from DC to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She continued to write---eventually publishing several books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, along with journalism and essays. In her early forties, when she was embedded in a Black Full-Gospel community in Baton Rouge, she experienced the first of what became an endless series of what she calls “waking visions”—images that come into her mind’s eye, as if from a Source beyond herself. She hasn’t stopped painting since, often “selling” her work in exchange for donations to Food Banks, Homeless Shelters, AIDS organizations, and the like.
Her work has been exhibited in juried, group, small museum, and solo shows in Brooklyn, New York City, Princeton, NJ, Baton Rouge, LA, Richmond, VA, Frenchtown, NJ, Vicksburg, MS, West Hartford, CT, Washington, DC, and many small, church, university and synagogue venues in New Jersey and Louisiana.
She lives with her husband and dogs in Montclair, NJ.