18 x 24 • Full-Color Print • Premium Heavyweight Stock

FROM THE SERIES "OUTSIDE"

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ABOUT THE SERIES

To be a jazz artist is to choose a lifestyle of expression, interpretation, and creation. To stand apart. But isn’t that what I am doing as an artist as well? Isn’t that the “art life” embodied? With “OUTSIDE,” I am probing themes of creation itself as an expression of “otherness” and creative output as a way to exceed the mundane. What does that mean to me as an artist and how does it speak to the viewer? As my subject, I have chosen 9 piano players of the Jazz genre to represent the theme. Each one is set against a grid of work-a-day life, standing in opposition to it. That grid is meticulously arranged and defined to align to itself at differing angles for each painting. The artists are misaligned to that grid, standing at the angle that the viewer looks at the work. That invites the viewer to identify with the artist and step beyond the average into that life of iconoclasm and expression. In all, a personal series plumbing the depths of my own experience as a creative through 9 legendary artists.

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ABOUT THE PRINT

Each print is vibrantly printed to premium heavyweight paper. The detail on these is stunning. Each comes signed by the artist and labeled in his hand. 

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