SERENA FENTON

I spent my younger years in the mountains and wide open spaces of the American West. My family was pioneering ranchers 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. Fooling around with stuff just comes naturally.

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.