About Jennifer Kostuck
I was never very great at talking – instead you would always find me drawing. I grew up in circumstances that left little to communicate but instead had me valuing the variety in which human beings could create.
Everything I owned in the 90s was Lisa Frank and I would sing opera to the little fluffy dogs that lived next door. I thought no one heard me but learned later in life that everyone on the block knew of course haha! I have tried a variety of methods and mediums since I began my professional career in 2006 but inevitably the work of Frank Frazetta, Alphonse Mucha, Lisa Frank, Mr Rogers, and Carl Sagan continued to push me to develop something beyond my technical realism beginnings.
I cherished fairytales as a child. The respect that I saw in the connections these characters shared with the animals and plants of their worlds, and longed for those connections myself during these dark human realities of my childhood. And so I endeavored to create them myself.
My hope now is that in each piece I create, I remind someone of the intrinsic value of this opportunity we have to exist amongst one another. And perhaps inspire you to “wonder” at your connection with the bird on your porch or the next stranger on the street and remember that “we are a way for the universe to know itself” (Sagan).