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Fruit Stripe Zebra Painting

Jay Worth Allen

United States

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 96 W x 24 H x 0.1 D in

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Fruit Stripe Zebra Quadriptych Painting, consisting of four 24” x 24” panels Total installation size: 96” (243.84 cm) w x 24” (60.96) h Acrylic on canvas Image showing Jay Worth Allen's 2020 new masterpiece quadriptych painting, titled "Fruit Stripe Zebra". Installed dimension: 96" wide by 24" high. Individual panel dimensions 24" wide by 24" wide. Acrylic paint on canvas. Very important piece. [Please Note: This truly is a very important piece, for more reasons than the fact that it is magnificent. More details will follow, I promise.] With a nod to Wriggley’s Fruit Stripe chewing gum, this work was born out of necessity. Early into the lock-downs of 2020, the artist learned only too quickly the meaning of two words: “essential” and “non-essential”. As early as March 10, 2020, he could not purchase paint, canvas, brushes, even pencils, because these and other tools of the trade were deemed “non-essential” — and, that he, himself, as an artist was deemed “non-essential.” Additionally, Jay Worth Allen had an internal feeling that something terribly wrong was going on inside his body, but couldn’t pursue medical investigation because of the constraints from the lockdowns. So, wanting to get everything in his life taken care of (that was in his power to do), he began looking over some of his previous works still in his possession. In the process, he came across four works from 2000, that as he put it, “never quite worked — I never was completely satisfied with the way they worked out.” Thus, he started reworking these older pieces into the work (the full quadriptych) you see before you. A genuine masterpiece. He finished the work on August 5, 2020. On August 8, 2020, he landed in the emergency room of a very large metropolitan hospital with swollen feet and legs, which no one at the hospital could determine medically why this had happened, and then spent the next two months dealing with very odd and seemingly unrelated, unexplained medical issues. By the morning of October 1, 2020, with the hospital still under full COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, Jay Worth Allen was undergoing (completely unplanned) life-saving emergency open heart surgery at the nation’s top cardiac facility. He had been born without the main aorta that supplies 85-90% of the blood to our hearts, a situation in which, according to the entire cardiac medical center’s staff, “he shouldn’t be alive!” Jay Worth Allen’s entire life has been a miracle — and it continues today. The entire world has been given a miraculous gift of this phenomenal man and his art. Since the surgery, the artist has had renewed vigor, strength, and faith. After a time of physical healing, which is ongoing still, Jay Worth Allen has begun working again, from the depths of one who literally has been resurrected from death into life, abundantly. Yellow Fruit Stripe Zebra (#1 of quadriptych) Red Fruit Stripe Zebra (#2 of quadriptych) Green Fruit Stripe Zebra (#3 of quadriptych) Black Fruit Stripe Zebra (#4 of quadriptych) To view the individual panels, please visit the listings for each on Jay Worth Allen’s Artworks. They are also in a collection, titled “Zebras”, located at: https://www.saatchiart.com/art-collection/Zebras/733729/414572/view Regarding shipping: This work will be shipped in accordance to Saatchi Art's shipping guidelines (each panel professionally removed from its stretcher, rolled and shipped in a professional mailing tube). Otherwise, please contact the artist to discuss other shipping methods (which may possibly incur additional shipping costs). ps. For anyone with a concern, thank the Lord, we (and our studio) is/are 100% COVID-free! So, rest assured, everything that comes from our studio is safe (the negative tests say it all!).

Details & Dimensions

Multi-paneled Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:96 W x 24 H x 0.1 D in

Number of Panels:2

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— Artist Statement — I was born. When I was about 6, I started drawing. Later, I started painting. That's still what I'm doing. What I know, I put into my work. I am interested in visible or tangible things that ARE, rather than Opinion. In my work, there are pre-formed, conventional, depersonalized, factual elements — impartial objects. I am concerned with the wholeness of a thing remaining within the boundaries of knowledge. It is within this boundary that I strive to conceal and reveal known objects at the same time. We have an existing language of words, signs, symbols, shapes, formulas, treatises, poems and the like — whole bodies of belief and knowledge that can, presumably, describe and penetrate anything and everything. Yet, I am forced to recognize that the system which enables me to form a piece of art and to think coherently cannot define how I uniquely think or feel, or even how I picture myself and everything outside myself. The plane of my work has always been real things — REAL MOMENTS RESTING IN TIME, where the ideational and perceptual worlds intersect to form image, idea, icon, and space, and — where I, and therefore the viewer, is projected through to another reality. Technique is inextricably tied to the content of my work. By working in all mediums, I work with numerous techniques. As a painter, acrylic is my medium of choice. My 3D & sculptural materials range from chicken wire to wood to concrete blocks to whatever material I find in my field of sight. The methods I use in printmaking (woodblock, silkscreen, blueprints, lithographs) all combine multiple processes. For me there is no hierarchy among these mediums and techniques; yet, drawing is the foundation for all my work. It’s is the way I speak the best, the clearest. — Brief Bio — On March 6 (the anniversary of Michelangelo’s birthday), J. Worth Allen (“Jay”) was born in Daylight, Tennessee. He grew up in Austin. Studied in Memphis, London, Oxford, New York, Los Angeles—. Has exhibited in New York, Texas, California, London, Edinburgh, France, and beyond. At 16, he was accepted into the top 3 art schools in the nation, each, with full scholarships: Pratt Institute/Fine Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and The Art Academy in Memphis, which won out (via a cartographical nudge from his dad).

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