Jenny Cox (American, born 1959)
Jenny Cox began working at Lower Merion Vocational Training Center in 1981 as a piece worker and paper shredder. When it became the Center for Creative Works in 2011, the work of her peers inspired her to paint. When Cox discovered markers and pens that her work truly took off. Marks developed into letters, letters into words, and colored cells ordered and demarcated space in compositions that are uniquely Cox’s. Her work has been represented by Fleisher/Ollman gallery both in Philadelphia and at the Outsider Art Fair in New York City since 2017.
The Center for Creative Works is a progressive art studio for people with developmental disabilities. Its parent organization is the national not-for-profit Resources for Human Development. The Center for Creative Works builds opportunities, visibility and development for artists, designers, and musicians through their work and through recognizing the value in sharing the unique , individual human experience through creative contribution. Creative Works artists have exhibited at the Outsider Arts Fair, NYC; Woodmere Art Museum; Fleisher/Ollman Gallery and in many other venues and galleries.
Information Courtesy of Rago Arts, October, 2019.