Jenny Parten

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Jenny Parten is a DFW based special effects artist and sculptor whose work explores the meeting point between beauty, the body, and the monstrous. Through sculptural wearable forms and creature design, she creates objects that invite encounter rather than decoration, allowing complexity, shadow, and transformation to exist without correction. A graduate of Cinema Makeup School’s Special Effects program in Los Angeles, Parten trained in prosthetic fabrication and creature design before translating those techniques into wearable art. By applying special effects methodologies beyond film and stage, she transforms the language of transformation into pieces meant to be inhabited in everyday life. Her work celebrates the beauty within horror and calls attention to forms we are often taught to overlook, fear, or label as grotesque. By bringing tenderness and presence to these spaces, Parten invites viewers to reconsider what is worthy of care, attention, and reverence. Her ongoing project Monstrosities investigates the body as a site of presence rather than ornamentation, offering works that explore tension, vulnerability, strength, and the coexistence of softness and ferocity. Parten lives and works in DFW where she continues to develop sculptural objects and creature work that bridge art, embodiment, and the uncanny.

Artist Statement

My work explores the place where beauty and the monstrous meet, and where the body becomes a site of encounter rather than ornamentation. Through sculptural wearable forms and creature design, I investigate transformation, vulnerability, and the tension between what is seen and what is avoided. Trained in special effects and prosthetic fabrication, I translate techniques traditionally used to alter the human form for film into objects meant to be inhabited in everyday life through wearable art. This shift moves transformation from illusion into presence, inviting a more intimate relationship with material, texture, and embodiment. I am drawn to what we are taught to fear, overlook, or call grotesque. Within these spaces, I find tenderness, complexity, and an unexpected dignity. By bringing attention to these forms, my work asks viewers to reconsider what is worthy of care, reverence, and attention. I am interested in how softness and ferocity coexist, and in questioning the beliefs we hold about what we do not understand. The unfamiliar, when met with presence rather than avoidance, can become a doorway to deeper recognition. Rather than correcting or disguising the monstrous, I seek to hold it in the light, as part of the full spectrum of being human.