Jenny Cerrone

 

I am a multimedia artist with a deep love of mosaics. Driven by my desert upbringing and emotional experiences, as well as the communities with which I am surrounded, I render visually captivating imagery out of stained glass scraps.

​“Honeydew” is a glass-on-wood mosaic. Inspired by park skating and the skate community, as well as my love of psychedelic patterns – and named after the color of my first pair of roller skates – this is my rendition of the classic wavy checkerboard. Distorted black and white boxes alternate across the panel, flecks of dichroic and iridescent glass glimmering throughout. Glittery black grout fills the crevices, completing the piece.     

​“The Salamander” is a glass-on-wood mosaic inspired by Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. As American politics become increasingly volatile and careen towards far-right conservatism, censorship runs rampant. Shards of yellow and orange stream out of the nozzle of a fire hose – the Salamander – as they engulf a book, pages aflutter at the tongue of the flames. Oranges and yellows and golds and amber surround the Salamander as an inferno dances behind it. Glittery black grout fills the voids and completes the piece.