Jean Arnold
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"Sequestered", 2006, Oil on canvas, 52� x 63�
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The experience of travel informs my artwork � not from a particular place, but from the velocity of travel itself � its visual bombardment, and its alteration of spatial perceptions. While traversing the landscape via car or bus, this hyper-fluid viewpoint engages me. I am compelled to notationally sketch architecture, cars, trees, and urban clutter as I ride by � capturing elements in a state of flux and removing them from their original context.
In my artwork, I invent ambiguous scenes and spaces by accumulating and compressing miles of space and time into one image. This process creates a dense layering of geography, reflecting the current condition of complexity, simultaneity and disjuncture in our lives.
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"University: Barricade", 2006, 42x42"
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Raised in the American West, I am obsessed with the land and its environmental concerns. The West�s founding mythology is of endless space, but �remote� is now within reach and empty is filling up rapidly. As traditional time/space barriers break down, the distance between us and our natural origins ever-accelerates. As the land is reconfigured to suit our ambitions, the environmental quandaries facing us are ever-accumulating.
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"Above the Grid", 2005-06, Oil on canvas, 42� x 60
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"Urban Organica", 2005, Oil on canvas, 52� x 63�
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"Cantarell", 2006, Oil on canvas, 30� x 46�
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Jean Arnold has exhibited at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY; Montecastello di Vibio, Italy; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX; and LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, among other locations. She is a recipient of a Visual Arts Fellowship, Utah Arts Council, two Utah Arts Council grants, and numerous juror awards. Arnold completed her MFA degree at Johnson State College, VT. Additionally, she completed residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the International School of Art, Umbria, Italy. She is represented by LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM and Plus Gallery, Denver, CO.
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I feel a connection with a tradition from the 19th century of the urban ambler, the �flaneur,� aimlessly strolling city streets, observing and writing about the urban scene. Riding buses and continuously sketching different neighborhoods, parks, schools, industrial districts, and strip malls � I delve into the drawing process while recording what I see.
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"Holladay: Outbound", 2006, 61� x 67"
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"I have rarely seen a bunch of paintings that so strongly demands engagement and that deals so plainly in the following simultaneities: sensual and cerebral, abstract and figural, planar and spatial, journalistic and subjective. My enjoyment of these paintings is multilayered: they are forthcoming enough that I feel a simple pleasure in their colors, shapes, and sense of space, but they are difficult enough that I feel compelled to make sense of them, to put my mind to them." � Van Lewis, �What Gets Filtered Out by Speed,� 15 Bytes Magazine.
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Jean Arnold
1220 E. 400 South
84102
Salt Lake City
UT
Utah
North America
t: +1 8015824148
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w: http://www.jeanarnold.com
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Web Links
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
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