L'art per l'art
Alan Taylor Jeffries
Bergholz, Ohio (USA) - Sala 3
Although I have had a lifelong interest in art, I only started to paint in 2008. I am self-taught. My work is influenced by traditional Abstract Expressionism and Neo-expressionism. I work primarily in oils but frequently in other media. I agree with the critic who once said that a painting does not have to be "about" anything other than the process of its own creation. I am also inspired by a quote from Jean-Michel Basquiat: “I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work. I try to think about life.”I never begin with a plan or image in mind. I simply start applying paint to a canvas until something interesting happens. Then that “something” suggests the next thing, and the next, and so on. At some point I may start making marks on it. If I add text, it may just be a word or phrase I hear from music or TV or just something that pops into my head. I never know what the finished product will be until it is finished.
“Primavera”—36x36 in., oil & oil stick on gallery canvas, 2013
“Vanity”—40x30 in., oil & oil-based paint marker on traditional canvas, 2013
"Untitled" (1) (2) (3) 24X18 in.
Oil, oil stick, oil pastel, oil-based paint marker, charcoal on Canson paper 2012
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“Lust”—36x36 in., oil & oil stick on gallery canvas, 2013
“Dominion”—36x48 in., oil on gallery canvas, 2013
“Thinking of You Not Thinking of Me”—48x36 in., oil & oil stick on gallery canvas, 2013
“The Virtue of Problems”—36x48 in., oil & oil stick on gallery canvas, 2013
“Everything Changes Everything”—36x48 in., oil & oil stick on gallery canvas, 2013
"Plastic Soul”—36x36 in., oil on gallery canvas, 2013
"The Illusion of Knowledge”—48x36 in., oil, acrylic, spray paint on gallery canvas, 2012
“Limits of Chance”—36x36 in., oil on gallery canvas, 2013
