Conversations & Confrontations by Jenny Dowd

Jenny Dowd stands by one of her exhibit pieces as she explains the meaning of the porcelain teeth that cover each piece. "Well, I've been putting little teeth in my work for a while as a symbol of information," she said. "The first time I had something that I had put teeth in and somebody asked me about it I was quoted in a newspaper ranting and raving about how we can't get rid of any information. We can't get rid of ourselves. We have DNA that we leave behind, we have teeth and dental records and all this."

Jenny Dowd's parents, Ralph and Carol Kistner, look at Dowd's ink on paper drawing titled "Peeping Neighbors." "The Peeping Neighbor one was just a sudden thought of 'What if I do something that's more outside or neighborly and how things are going on in suburbia?'" Dowd said. "That one actually happened pretty fast. I had this idea and I just had to get it done. ... This one has really been interesting because depending on the person that looks at it, men and women have different views of who's peeping on who. well, I know how I drew it, but I think its interesting that it seems to be pretty split down the sexes on that."

Ink on paper titled "Horror Movie" "I was thinking, two little chairs watching a movie late at night, so it's got to be a horror movie," artist Jenny Dowd said. "They snuck downstairs, they're watching a movie and what would be more scary to two little wooden chairs than an ax."

Ink on paper, titled "Peeping Neighbors"

Jenny Dowd and her mother Carol Kistner discuss Dowd's ink on paper drawing, "Horror Movie" at the gallery reception.