Welcome to jenniferdamas.com. I am a professional artist and a San Francisco Bay Area native. I currently live and work in Vallejo, CA.

My family history has been passed down to me in the form of antique objects. I grew up surrounded by them, have inherited many of them, and have accumulated more as an adult. I find antiques to be intensely unique and precious; each with a history and past specific to the object due to its individual trajectory of different owners, locations, uses, etc. Features inherent to antiques (faded color, rust, scuffs, hairline cracks, chips, layers of paint, stains and an aura of age) have always influenced my work indirectly. These surface traces of use and decay accrued over decades or centuries may symbolize passing time or the reality of the past as it impinges on the present.

I prefer for my work to have room for playfulness and experimentation without any predetermined outcome. A quiet space develops where unconscious impulse is loosed for a period, and then consciously regarded so that compositional concerns can be brought to bear and formal decisions can be made.