Today in Lakewood-JBLM: Justin Jensen at Pierce College Fort Steilacoom

From Pierce College:

Justin Jensen, a Colorado painter whose landscapes are embedded with symbolism, is this summer’s featured artist in the Fort Steilacoom Fine Arts Gallery through Sept. 27.

Jensen will meet with the public at the opening reception of “Texture and Being” Wednesday, June 5, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Fort Steilacoom Fine Arts Gallery.

Jensen was just hired as an art professor at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, said Pierce College Art Professor Dave Roholt, who attended graduate school with Jensen.

“Justin has an extraordinary ability to mix the sacred and sublime,” Roholt said.
Much of Jensen’s imagery carries references to his Christian faith. In his landscapes of the Rocky Mountains, for instance, he often inserts a cosmos or nebula into what otherwise might be a postcard-perfect image.
“It’s a balance between the celestial and terrestrial state,” Roholt said.

Justin Jensen: Texture and Being
On display through Sept. 27, 2013

Fort Steilacoom Fine Arts Gallery
Pierce College Fort Steilacoom
9401 Farwest Dr. S.W., Lakewood, Wash.
Fine Arts Gallery
Olympic Building (room 265)
Gallery hours: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday – Thursday; 10 a.m. – noon Friday
More info: 253-964-6718 or http://jmjensenart.com