Jason Fairchild Daydreamers 1 2012 acrylic on canvas 30” x 40”


Since the world is about to end,with all that Armageddon jazz, I thought that I would use this year to experiment more in my paintings. This year I wanted to be more daring, be a rebel rouser, change things up, and do things that I would never have thought of doing. Known mostly for my paintings of dark, projected nudes, I decided to leave all my inhibitions behind and open a door that I have never gone into before. I have always had two worlds going at once with my work, the love for the human form and the love of the complete abstraction. I have done work that is abstraction, but never showed it. I had the mentality that if it did not look like mine completely, I would set it aside. I have always heavily edited my work, if it looked like some other artist’s work before me, I would not show it period. One of the major themes I deal with in painting,is has everything really been done before? Today I feel our culture is a mass produced mash of recycled icons & ideas from yesterday. So if this year is about change, I wanted to take it steps farther with the use of different colors, mediums, time frame, mind set, everything that would push myself. I think at some point I lost sight of what it means to be an artist and what made me want to be one in the first place. Creating art is one thing , creating new, ground- breaking, challenging work is another that is what is important to me as an artist.


PoetsArtists Chicago Issue 2012 www.poetsandartists.com


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