Recently I have been invested in
James Jean’s work and his abstraction and freedom of creating his own
environments in art. In his work,
there is a lot of fluidity of creating different planes and having them
intersect whether they be figures or fluid stokes resembling a landscape. In my
final, I aimed to be more relaxed in my stokes and trust experimentation with
paint as well as allowing the viewer to understand my work rather than spelling
it out for them.
In Jean’s pieces, he has detail to
the point of abstraction. I find myself getting caught up in realism and the
detail behind it, that I sometimes lose my creativity in painting. Comparing
myself to Jean, I hope to create a focused color pallet with fluid stokes and
still maintaining a solid idea and narrative behind it.
With his work, there is an openness
to interpretation from all viewpoints, which makes it all the more compelling.
I personally tried to incorporate size and shape into my pieces just as much as
the paint itself. Through this, I hope to take the viewer away into this mental
world that they can decided the narrative and easily attach their own beliefs
to.
When it comes to Jean’s techniques,
the smoothness of his pieces are impeccable. To incorporate that into my work, I
tried to play with the balance of my pieces. By having 4 be skewed but equal in
overall size, I was very conscious of having a balance of imagery. On my side panels,
which were almost the most difficult part, I had to really know how to step
back and not overdo anything. Especially the experimentation of them, I found myself
at times trying to do more than I had to and catching myself in the act. Overall,
this collection was a personal challenge but with this inspiration in the back
of my mind, I was focused enough to try to change myself to better serve the
vision.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Over the years, I have come to
realize that my art always has a narrative. Telling stories is my passion
whether it is through acting, art, or something in-between. Having the
opportunity to create my own stories and share experiences or feeling that can somehow
be communicated universally is something I strive for.
With this collection, the focus of
religion and how it seems to have been a universal feeling and belief for
thousands of years was extremely important. The fact that millions are
faithfully dedicated to a form of afterlife spanning over so many different
religions is something magical. With that, I chose to explore the relationship
between an unearthly “good place” and “bad place”. However, abstracting them, I
wanted to highlight there are always hidden negatives and positives to every
situation and setting.
Being inspired by the true definition
of sublime, “the [beautiful] … does not invite such contemplation but instead
is an overpowering or vast malignant object of great magnitude, one that could
destroy the observer (Arthur Schopenhauer)”, I wanted to represent the other
sides of Heaven and Hell that can cause confusion and doubt with previously
conceived notions like many situations that are faced in everyday life driven
to the extreme.
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