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Artist Jean Davis
San Jose, California USA
Dancing Out
Oil Painting
Artist Statement
My paintings visually express the concept of Emergence, the idea that unpredictable patterns form naturally in what seem to be spontaneous ways. I paint from photos I take of my subject (usually myself) in different stages of movement and from different points of view. Identity is not important. I paint through and around the chosen figure to variously obscure and show parts of it, letting the abstraction lead the way. This allows some of the figure to emerge, visually moving in and out of the abstract setting. Colors, moods, and marks tell the story.
I paint because it gives me access to a non-verbal language to express things I cannot say; things I perhaps do not even adequately understand. There is a logic and sensibility in color and form on a canvas that I do not find with any consistency in real life. The only answers I can propose that might possibly offer solace to another are my paintings.
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Juried Art Exhibitions
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