Jacqueline Warrren

These new images expand the memory of my experiences. Hidden secrets partially revealed, trying to blend realism with abstraction. My work is about reconstructing images through a painterly vocabulary.

A theatrical, romantic sense of place is the current theme. Color and drawing is inherent in the surfaces. Moments are recalled. Color and image coincide. Synthesizing my version of reality, I seek an easy recognition. I prefer to give the viewer the opportunity to reach their own conclusions. To me, the best of what the activity of painting has to offer at the end of the twentieth century is a glimpse of life, transforming human activity into the surprising language of the visual. What is seen is left up to the viewer to understand individually. To quote Kenneth Baker, an American critic, "Painting should be carried on without cynicism or apology, like a heroic act. Painting is the first and last refuge."

I reprocess all of my experiences. I am not the avant garde; I am the artist who comes after the avant garde. I am concerned with the continuity of ideas. I let the materials I use speak for themselves. I thrive on performance and energy of one's own personal vision. I have to reaffirm the reality I can experience.

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Jacqueline received her MFA in painting and printmaking at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. She also completed postgraduate work at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Warren splits her time between her California studio, her professorship at Drury University, and her summer studio in Florence, Italy.

Jacqueline Warren's artwork is a part of numerous public and private collections nationwide. The following is a relatively comprehensive public collection list.

Public Collections

IBM
Price Waterhouse, Los Angeles
Centerre Banks Inc.
Hallmark Corporation
Pan America Underwriters
Shook Hardy and Bacon, Kansas City Law Firm
Seven Up Corporation, World Headquarters, Clayton, Missouri
SPIVA Museum, Joplin, Missouri
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
University of Arizona Collection
Frank Klein Collection, Kansas City, Missouri
Alice Neel Collection, New York, New York
Boatman's Banks of Missouri
Blue Cross Corporation
The Stenberg Collection, Sarasota, Florida
BCCLW Architects, Little Rock, Arkansas
May Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri
Weston Hotels, Denver, Colorado
Embassy Suites Hotels, Irvine, California, Secacus, New Jersey
Empire Banks of Missouri
College of the Ozarks, Branson, Missouri
Missouri State Board of Realtors
Cox Hospital, Springfield, Missouri
St. Johns Hospital, Cancer Center, Springfield, Missouri
Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Missouri
Holiday Inns Corporation, Memphis, Tennessee
Marriot Corporation
First National Banks, Columbia, Missour...