Jenny Eggleston American Carnage: Quick Studies to Benefit the ACLU

Jenny Eggleston
American Carnage: Quick Studies to Benefit the ACLU

Opening on The Other Side,
Friday, September 26, 6-9pm
Saturdays & Sundays 1-5pm
through October 26

My recent art is all about the gut-punch, the feeling of our collective jaws hitting the floor. Chaos IS disrupting whatever version of American representative democracy we each have believed in, threatening the comfort of many and amplifying fear for still more.

The title of the show is taken from Trumps first inaugural address. In his nationalistic speech he used the phrase “American Carnage”. He signaled how he would govern in his first term — and laid out a vision for his second term.

– Jenny Eggleston

Jenny Eggleston is a Raleigh-based artist raised in Richmond, Virginia. Born into a family of historians, she was immersed in southern, patriotic rhetoric. Her work is a reckoning with this whitewashed, patriarchal upbringing. Eggleston graduated from the College of William and Mary and began graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University before moving to Seattle and then to Raleigh.