Talent Jeffrey

Channel:

Art

Genres:

Contemporary, Figurative, Video Art

Role:

Artist

Specialties:

Handmade, One of a Kind, Print based-mixed media. Intaglio, Woodcut, and Drawing with aggression and resistance.

I was born in May of 1974, in Newton New Jersey, in the same hospital as my father and grandfather. My early memories are fragmented much like my writings and imagery. I do recall always wanting to be an artist and being a keen observer. Much of my youth was spent at the kitchen table drawing, scribbling, trying to make thought concrete.
All my life I have sought to make images that evoke feeling and inspire thought. What ever meaning or value is derived by the viewer from my work is not my primary concern. All I desire is to awaken eyes to possibility... to be a catalyst in the lethargic mind... to trigger the synapses... to ignite thought...Gun is Mind.

My imagery questions identity in regards to society, family, and spirituality and is enacted through the analysis of my own experiences, dreams and observations… gesturing towards facades and searching for truth within corroded viewpoints and memories. Much of my recent work uses the photograph as a source or trigger to conjure memory, from that memory the images evolve. The majority of my work questions a past perception in relation to those ideals and beliefs I hold now.
Fragment from notes for "Sea Of Impermanance" 2006

Eyes, Ears, Soul, and Ap·pend·ages.

Silk Screen/ Wood Cut/ Lino/ Collagraph/ Intaglio/ Mono Print/ Painting/ Drawing/ Collage/ ETC.

University of South Dakota 2003-2006
Vermilion, South Dakota
Master of Fine Arts, Printmaking
Magna Cum Laude

Wichita State University 1998-2002
Wichita, Kansas
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking
Magna Cum Laude

UPCOMING FOLIOS AND EXHIBITIONS:

WHAT ABOUT US? - City Arts in Wichita, KS
November 5-29, 2008
Reception: Friday, November 7, 2008 - 6-8pm
http://www.wichitaarts.com/Organizations/CityArts.html

PRINT PORTFOLIO PARTICIPANT:

Dark Visions- Wichita State, Newman University, and University of South Dakota, 04/1/2008

Weirdos, Savages, and Neurotics - by invitation, Wichita State University, 2006

Nightmares - University of South Dakota and Wichita State University, 2005

Valentines Exchange- University of South Dakota, student exchange 2005

Made in the USA- Invitational Portfolio, 2004

Flying Roller Exchange- Wichita State University, 2003

Appropriate to Zipper- Wichita State University and Metropolitan State College, 2002

The Wizard of Oz- Wichita State University, 2002

Border Crossing- Southern Graphics Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 2001

EXHIBITIONS:

The Edge Of Invisible- Group Exhibition, NOVA 535,St. Petersburg, Florida, 9/11/08 – 10/25/08

The Sleepless Dreamer- Solo Show, Newman University, Wichita, Kansas, 11/22/07- 12/20/07

Flying Roller Club Retrospective, by invitation, City Arts, Wichita, Kansas, 2006

Sea of Impermanence, MFA Solo Exhibition, Main Gallery, Warren M. Lee Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, 2006

Annual Stillwell Exhibit- Juried student Exhibition, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, 2004, 2005, and 2006.

USD Printmakers- Group Exhibit, Frogman’s Gallery, Beresford, South Dakota, 2005

Frogman’s Assistants 2004, Group Show, Gallery 110, Vermillion, South Dakota, 2004.

USD & LSU- Group Exhibit, Aaron Packard Gallery, Vermillion, South Dakota, 2004.

Misogyny- 3-man show, rented warehouse, Wichita, Kansas, 2003.
New Works on Paper- BFA Solo Exhibition, McKnight Hall, Wichita State University,2002.

Handmade, One of a Kind, Print based-mixed media. Intaglio, Woodcut, and Drawing with aggression and resistance.

I remember being drawn to a picture of my grandfather in uniform, trimmed by a silver frame it has moved from my grandmothers house to that of my mother, but it always draws me in. He was an ideal hero for me as a little boy; striking, intense, piercing blue eyes, honorable, the willing sacrifice. My sister and I spent a few summers in his house all of us under my grandmothers thumb. He and I shared a room and often enjoyed listening to his phonograph. Not to music mind you but to stories of great men and conquest. I imagined my grandfather as the hero in every novel. First he was a musketeer, then one of King Arthur’s knights, but most often he was a hero in the stories of his age. As we sat there in his room he in his chair and I on my cot, the words spilling out of the brass horn of that old phonograph, I would study his mannerisms his hands his face… as he looked sightless into some distant time… I was invisible unheard the perfect observer. How I wanted to be him in his youth fighting the good fight, standing up for the truth. Yes I spent a few seasons in the blind mans cave, but now I see.
The facade is brilliant and awe inspiring in the case of a hero… but some hero’s have double lives as do most of us. What lies beneath?
Fragment from notes for "Sea Of Impermanence" 2006