Jenny K Assemblage Artist

by Hilary Grant

 

Quick: what do vintage ricers, weathered rolling pins and seasoned cutting
boards have in common?

 

Of course, most are items that were probably indispensable tools in every
grandmother’s kitchen. 

 

But for Jenny Kompolt, an assemblage artist who works out of her newly renovated garage studio – which she calls “my lab” –high on a hilltop in Edna Valley, amid meandering oleander bushes and olive trees, they mean something else: essential ingredients to make her “junk art” designs.    

 

In fact, recycling, reusing and repurposing everything from rusty metal faucets and valves, to ancient nuts and bolts and scratched-up records – “I spend a lot of my time at salvage yards, flea markets and friends’ garages,” says Kompolt -- this local artist is a kind of modern-day alchemist… (Read more in our next cookbook issue.) Go to Jenny's Website.