WEEK TWO, OCT 7th, Jamie Bollenbach,
Visual Artist
Area of Specialization: Oil Painting.
Introductory Statement:
My subject matter has evolved from organic abstraction toward
the exploration of transitory human presence, represented temporally
in paintings as traces of light and color and gestural mark within
a specific shape of space. Recently, elements of desolate, imagined
landscapes enter the work, pushing figuration to the edge of winking
out- my version of the traditional symbol of the soap bubble as
the fragility of life.
I am fascinated by science, particularly oceanography and anthropology,
and consider physical art making to be an urgent contemporaryintellectual
matter. Human beings think with far more than mere language: we
build our perceptual environment with physical movement, hands
and the manipulation of matter, the dynamic melding of emotion
and logic and the ability of material to create illusion. Today,
painting resurges, resplendent in its intellectual and cultural
power; its resilience in radically changing cultural environments
proves inexhaustible.
Art is not restricted by medium; it is the intelligence with which
the specificity of the medium is regarded and controlled that makes
it serious work. Painting endures because artwork can form a particular
language within fully conscious human action; great paintings can
teach their own context.
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