Barbara Rita Jenny MFA '02
Barbara was born in Newark, New Jersey and earned her B.A. from Dartmouth College and her MFA from MECA in Studio Art and Critical Theory. She is an art instructor at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, where she earned a Faculty Grant in 2003. Her other awards include the winning prize in the New York Independent Art Fair/Art Collectors Club of Vienna, National Emerging Artist Competition in 2002 and an artist residency grant to the Vermont Studio Center in 1997.

Her work has been widely exhibited at various galleries, including the Robert Lincoln Levy Gallery in Portsmouth, Kentucky State University and Central Wyoming College among others. About her work, she writes, "My work concerns the changing perception of our bodies in an increasingly technological world. . . the large format digital prints suggest the sublime possibilities of the body merged with and manipulated by machine. . . My intention is to provoke a reflexive connection between these images of manipulated skin and the viewer’s own skin, in response to the viewer’s seductive/repulsive reaction to the work."

"Asylum", iris print, 46"x 32"

"Risen", iris print, 35"x 46"