Jennybird Alcantara
A native of Napa, California, Jennybird spent a childhood steeped in the fantastical mindscapes of the Brothers Grimm, “The Wizard of Oz,” and zombie movies. Her fondness for the world of the imagination led to a serious interest in art, and she went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute, receiving a BFA degree in 1995.
“I have always been a daydreamer,” she says. “My inspirations come from a wide variety of sources including fairytales and fables, mythology, the natural world and freaks of nature, melancholy and classical music, long road trips to the middle of nowhere and the surprises found along the way, oddities, Victorian fashion, old medical book illustrations, folk art, costuming, creepy religious statues and paintings, carnivals, trips down memory lane, broken dolls, and objects out of place.”
Jennybird has exhibited at Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Burning Man Funhouse (Black Rock City, NV), MF (New York), True Hate (La Rochelle, France), and Thinkspace (Los Angeles), among others. She currently lives in San Francisco.