Selfie Painting

Jimmy Reagan was born on July 6th, 1993 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In 2011, he burst into the creative world as a dynamic, young artist. He currently lives and creates in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. Reagan works primarily in oil pastels, colored pencils, pen and paint to create single and multi-media pieces. The imagery in his art radiates his ability to bring fresh perspective to an image or a simple form. Reagan often re-imagines the world in bright and sometimes shocking color and often with distorted and inverted shapes. His unique style is born out of a struggle to communicate his ideas, his needs, and his perspective to the world verbally. Diagnosed at age three with Autism, art expression became a way to give visual voice to his dreams and experiences. Bright, electric color infuses his images as do short lines he defines as 'tick” marks. His work, especially his cityscapes, clearly illustrates a deep connection to light and perspective. Reagan's favorite subjects are portraits –both people and animals. The subjects of Reagan’s portraiture often depict a clear, sometimes striking, direct gaze. Eye contact is an interesting and reoccurring theme.