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​Prints || Collage || Asemics

by Jean LeBlanc

It is my pleasure to bring you the work of Jean LeBlanc!
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Artist Statement:
The interplay of literal and figurative is the key to the transformative power of literature and art. Metaphor, paradox, catachresis, pleonasm, anthimeria - all these rhetorical devices have visual parallels in my collage, print, multimedia, and asemic works. I especially love synecdoche, a part of something representing the whole, a hint offering a way into multiple possibilities. Synecdoche encourages astonishment. Asemic writing-itself like an extended synecdoche- adds the suggestion of a narrative while giving the reader/viewer space to see their own stories.​
I think of each print/collage/asemic work I create as a visual poem. Likewise, as a poet, I consider many of my poems to be a sort of verbal collage or multi-layered monoprint (without the thrill of splattering paint everywhere). For the brief interval of creation-whether it's a poem, a collage, a print, an asemic text, or some combination of those forms-I can bring to the forefront that which is beautiful and life-enhancing, while diminishing that which would diminish me (diminish us). I hope that, for each reader/viewer, my work is a portal to a better world. With shape and color, subject matter and abstraction, semantic and asemic, we can explore new ways of seeing.
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Bio:
Jean LeBlanc grew up in Massachusetts midway between Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson. After moving to northwestern New Jersey in 1994, she taught college writing and literature for twenty-five years. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and in twelve collections, most recently Terrible Terrain: Poems Inspired by the Life of Lavinia Dickinson (Shanti Arts Publishing, 2023). A vibrant local poetry community keeps her inspired, especially the Writers' Roundtable of Sussex County, New Jersey, and the Betty June Silconas Poetry Center (of which she is a past director). She has exhibited artwork and photography in several juried shows and had visual work in journals. She was also a featured artist in The Cascadia Subduction Zone: A Literary Quarterly (Aqueduct Press, 2019).
On Facebook, she's Jean LeBlanc Poetry.
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Adversity births innovation. In lieu of a brick and mortar gallery, I’m launching a virtual gallery to share the work of working artists I admire and to share my own work, as well. I hope you enjoy. If you do, please tell your friends. Spread the word. A virtual show doesn’t get traffic off the street, but with your help people unfamiliar with my site can discover it just the same. Also, check out our publications page. We publish a catalog of each Evince Exhibit. 

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Warmly and with appreciation, Karla Van Vliet