SERENA FENTON

Born in Utah, I spent my growing years exploring the mountains and open spaces of the American West by bicycle, car and on foot. My family on both sides were pioneers and homesteaders in Oklahoma and Alberta. I come from a long line of makers. On the frontier, if you couldn’t make it, you probably wouldn’t have it.

My work explores archetypes and memory, as well as focusing on the irony of daily life. I create improvisational landscapes with illusory animals and birds.

I see my work as following in the American Magical Realism tradition of Wanda Gag, Edward Hopper and Grant Wood.