Mixed Media Cods

Item Description

Title & Artist:  "Caught Cod" – by Jennifer Groeber

Medium & Size:  Collaged maps, buttons, and netting, with acrylic and tempera on wood.  21 7/8" L x 8 5/8" H x 3/4" D.  For indoor display only.

Artist Statement:  Whether working in painting, collage, or printmaking, Groeber's art focuses on identity and the friction that exists between the surface of our experiences and our complex pasts. How did we become who we are today, and what is the evidence of our journey? Although her work generally looks at the identity of a person or people within a family, in "Caught Cod" Groeber turns that lens of identity onto the town of Marblehead. Modern layered street maps of Marblehead and the surrounding communities are caught in fishing nets, brightly colored buoys reflecting on the water. Shell buttons are suspended in medium with the word COD shimmering just below the surface. Marblehead is simultaneously a place that looks to the future, block after block of beautiful homes, schools, quaint neighborhoods, and storefronts, while preserving its patina of age, its historical connection to the water, and the livelihood provided by the sea.

Artist Biography:  Jennifer Groeber is an artist and writer living on the North Shore of Boston. She graduated from Yale University with a BA in Painting/Printmaking and an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. She has shown her work in select group shows as well as solo shows across the East Coast, including most recently at the Wenham Museum and as part of the Essex Arts Collaborative. Her paintings have also been selected to be included in the catalog exhibition, New American Paintings. You can find her making art, writing about the passage of time, and telling stories about parenting her four kids at her blog, Mama Art.

Hosting Business:  "Caught Cod" is on display at National Grand Bank, 91 Pleasant St., Marblehead, MA. On July 1, this cod will be moved to Abbot Hall, 188 Washington St., Marblehead, MA.

Item Special Note

Pick-up of purchased cods will be on Tuesday evening, July 5. Winning bidder will receive a notification email with information on pick-up time and location.

If winning bidder requires shipping, winner's credit card will be charged a separate $24.95 fee to cover USPS ground and handling. Shipping is available within the U.S. only and must be requested within 7 days after receipt of the notification email.

Any cod purchased via "Buy Now" will remain on display at the hosting business through the end of the auction, and will be available for pick-up as detailed in the winning bidder notification email.

If winning bidder has not picked up cod (or provided shipping address) within 30 days after the close of the auction, cod will become the property of Marblehead Festival of Arts, Inc.

Click here to see the other decorated cods up for bid in our Cods of a Different Color online auction!

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