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'UNTITLED XVII'
JAMES PERRIN
| James Perrin received his
BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1997, and his Masters in
Painting from Boston University in 2001. After living and
working in Venice, Italy for a year, he has begun a new body of work
while living and painting in
central Tennessee. |
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'SHOULDA BEEN
A PLUMBER'
WHAT: An exhibition of fresh paintings by some Austin painters
who would be making an honest living by now.
WHO: Ethan Azarian, Chris Chappell, Nathan Jensen, James
Perrin, Michael Schliefke, Philip Trussell
WHERE: Blue Genie Art
Industries
916 Springdale
Austin, Texas 78768
(map to Blue Genie)
WHEN:
Opening Reception -
Friday, October 3, 2003 6-11 PM
Saturday, October 4, 2003 10AM - 6PM
FOR MORE INFO, CONTACT:
Michael Schliefke
email here |
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Artist Statement:
I was born in
Union City Tennessee on May 4, 1975. I lived there until I was 11
when my family moved to Cuba Missouri, where I lived until I
attended college at Kansas City Art Institute, in Kansas City
Missouri. Two years after graduating from Kansas City Art Institute
I moved to Boston Massachusetts to pursue a Master’s degree in
painting.
At Kansas City Art Institute I focused mainly on the human figure
and more narrative types of painting while at the same time becoming
interested in the rhythm and design of a painting. At Boston
University I allowed myself to paint more freely and explore images
not based on a narrative. The paintings became more free flowing
and spontaneous and were supported by more drawings, which were
also more spontaneous. The paintings also became more structural
and rhythmical.
In my recent paintings I am concentrating mainly on the rhythm and
design and structure. The paintings are void of symbols in order to
allow themselves to become the symbol and to create their own
symbols.
The space is created by colors creating space with the color next to
it.
Rhythm is
created with other rhythms creating the space and changing the
space. The paintings are not stationary paintings and the space is
not stationary space. The colors and rhythms are the space and the
colors and rhythms are constantly changing.
If you stare at
a blank wall, lose your focus in the blank wall the space of the
wall changes. If you stare at a tile floor the floor becomes
optical and moves like a Mondrain painting. If you stare at any
setting different objects come forward visually. They become
optical. We always know which object is closer because of its
positioning in space and on the ground. We can reason. We can see
logically. My paintings are not logical paintings. They have to be
stared at and focused. One has to allow changes to happen as one
looks them. |
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