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This piece is part of a recent series of abstract pieces of measuring 20 in x16 in on stretched canvas. The main medium used is acrylic artist's colors, but usually incorporate one or more other media, in this case collaged 70's era wallpaper and spray paint. In abstract work like Bright Environment I try to engage in very elemental forms and emotions. I am a mark-maker. The paintings build upon themselves, color by color, mark by mark. Every step, every decision is propelled by what is already on the canvas, but which has not yet arrived at a clear, unique visual statement. The painting will have its own emotion at that point. Paintings like Bright Environment are, in fact, inspired by the inchoate state the painting is in, in its first moments of existence. It possesses almost infinite possibilities; it will, in the end, delineate its own unique moment in the world. The title merely suggests a sense of hope and optimism that I try to cultivate in my own apprehension of the world. This painting is on canvas, and is unframed, though wired, and the sides are painted black if one chooses to hang it unframed. It is coated with an archival varnish to protect it from UV light and foreign matter. It ships in a box.
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2023
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Print:
Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:
8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:
13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:
White
Ready to Hang:
Yes
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Ships in a Box
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Jack St John
United States
Biography Jack St. John was born and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, and currently lives and maintains a studio in Bedford, Ohio. After brief career as an engineering student at Case Western Reserve University, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Kent State University, with a concentration in painting, After that he participated in the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited regularly in both local and national group and juried shows. Over several decades, his practice has explored a variety of picture making styles and strategies, from highly realistic still life painting to large scale assemblage to his current direction of non-objective mixed media work on paper and canvas. Artist Statement My art represents a register of all the moments of art-making, the second-by-second evolving conspiracy between thought and action that occurs in front of the paper or canvas I am trying to solve the visual and emotional riddle that the first application of marks and color and media put forth. The pieces are informed by the attention I direct at the world around me-and in me-during that creative experience. The pieces relate to the world around me, but are resolved in an intuitive way. Using an expressionistic visual vocabulary I expand upon and distort the observations of and feelings evoked by natural and man-made environments and their interweaving. Marks and colors denote the shifting relationship they have to each other, while the overall direction of a piece is pushed along by the contrasting visual and tactile qualities of the varied materials I am using. I work with the physicality of paint and related materials, keying on their qualities of heaviness/lightness, translucency/opacity, facture, dryness/wetness-and I use those often contrary qualities to make and organize marks into articulate abstract surfaces. I am finished when the constituent, formal parts, however demonstrative or idiosyncratic in themselves, unify, knit together to create an imperative, resonant composition, a field of decisions made, the result of a process through which I may know myself for a few moments.
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