From the Series "Entropy"
Photography is about time and time is a visible presence in my garden. I am reminded that things of this world are an eternal dance of waves and particles, emanations of light, re-combinations, and re-incarnations of energy. These images are a metaphor for our layered consciousness. Inspired by Renaissance still life paintings, of ‘nature mort’ or dead nature, they are not just about death but rather a reminder of eternal cycles of composition/decomposition/re-composition and our connection to, and impact on, the world around us.
Jenee Mateer is a photographer and video artist. (B.A. 1987, English/Modern Studies from the University of Virginia and M.F.A. 1996, from the Maryland Institute College of Art) In 2007, she joined the faculty of Towson University, where she is currently Professor of Photo Imaging and Chair of the Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues both nationally and internationally and her writing and artworks have been featured in books, journals and catalogues.
Awards 2022 Honorable Mention, 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Award
(Digital Manipulation)
2020 Honorable Mention, NYC4 PA: Abstract 2020-21, “Lana”
2019 Honorable Mention, 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award
(Digital Manipulation)
2016 Honorable Mention, A. Smith Gallery: Alphabet,
“Abstract Thought”
Honorable Mention, New York Center for Photographic
Art: Macro 2016, “Pillowbook”
2014 Towson University FDRC Grant/The Sky is Lemon Lime
Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Workshops Photography
Contest: Water
2012 Award of Merit, 35th Annual Art on Paper, MD
Federation of Art, “Pleasure of the Text”
