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I don't use the word swag a lot , but check me out in Winchester thinking whether or not if should to dive full-time with my clothes on.
The Art of Jackson Pollock - Splatter Painting (VERY MESSY) at the Lester Public Library, Two Rivers, Wisconsin
Solo Exhibition by JonOne
Opening Reception | Saturday November 3, 2012
Special Preview | Thursday November 1, 2012
November 3 - December 2, 2012
Fabien Castanier Gallery is proud to present A Beautiful Madness, the first solo exhibition in the USA by JonOne. Though raised in New York, JonOne has lived in Paris since the mid 1980s where he has established himself as an artist, building his career that has spanned over 20 years.
From his early days as a youth, tagging the streets of Harlem in the 1980s, JonOne has always emphasized a painterly approach, bringing brushes instead of spray cans to tag subway trains. Drawing from the energy and freedom of painting in an urban landscape, he translates his roots as a graffiti artist to present paintings that are a completely unique form of abstract expressionism. Akin to Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, JonOne’s pieces exhibit a enormous sense of movement and color. His compositions combine freestyle, precise strokes, repetition and texture for a uniquely balanced yet dynamic visual experience.
“...my life is very fast-moving and intense, and I hope I convey that energy through my work. [My paintings] represent me but in a different dynamic from when they were linked to a street context... The way I present my work has changed but I can’t deny my roots or my schooling. Even so, I don’t see myself as a street artist because I don’t feel that need to go out and do stuff. I’m not committed to a cause. I’m someone who’s converted the negative to positive and today my work is done in the studio.”
– JonOne, Transformations (Interview with Marie Maertens, March 16, 2012)
Here we had to create a peice that would compliment the learning resorce centre at our college. I chose to do an abstract background, with colours that compliment the green walls in the LRC, with a pop art inspired image in the forground of two people wispering. The message was to reiunforce the rule of being quiet within the LRC to prevent distractions to others, done in an artistic way.
‘When I was alive and had a human heart,’ answered the statue, ‘I did not know what tears were, for I lived in the palace of Sans-Souci, where sorrow is not allowed to enter. In the daytime I played with my companions in the garden, and in the evening I led the dance in the Great Hall. Round the garden ran a very lofty wall, but I never cared to ask what lay beyond it, everything about me was so beautiful. My courtiers called me the Happy Prince, and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness. So I lived, and so I died. And now that I am dead they have set me up here so high that I can see all the ugliness and all the misery of my city, and though my heart is made of lead yet I cannot choose but weep.’
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‘Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘will you not stay with me one night longer?’
-The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde