TENSION: A Single Painting Exhibition

Thanks to Jeffrey Cortland Jones for curating this exhibition in his space CORRIDOR in Dayton Ohio.

The opening was on Friday. I drove out with a good friend and we had a wonderful time talking with people and seeing the rest of the art that was going on in the building.

As always. The documentarian that I am, I had to film the painting in the exhibition.

I chose one painting for this exhibition, mostly because of space considerations. I know I could have put 4 or more in there, but I wanted to give the viewer one representation of my work to focus on. I know artists when they get exhibitions they tend to want to cram in all their newest work. I made sure with this exhibition to do neither of those. This painting is...

"01-03-2015"
30.5" X 67"
Acrylic on Acrylic Yarn on Painted Wood Chassis and Incorporated Aluminum Frame

Viewed from the twin lenses of the video camera. Show in Dayton Ohio. #dayton #ohiopainters #ohiononobjective #ohio #painting #color #artoninstagram #artwork #jeffreycortlandjones #jeffreycollins #badasspainting #yarn #void #texture #divisible #artgallery

A video posted by Jeffrey Collins (@jeffreymcollins) on Oct 10, 2016 at 10:11am PDT

The exhibition will be up in Dayton at Corridor/Divisible until the end of October. If you would like any other information about it. Please feel free to ask. You can also find out more here if you are on Facebook.

More pics.....

09-24-2015

09-24-2015 is the title of the newest painting of mine. The second using Fluorescent paint for the chassis. This painting measuring 66 X 41.5 Inches is what has become one of my favorite sizes of paintings. It's right between Institutional size and residential size. Just easy enough to move around on my own but also being just bigger than a regular human. Giving one the sense of calling it "Human Sized" and being correct. Fluorescent Red chassis really makes the whole painting vibrate, playing off the white of the yarn and the play of white over yellow acrylic paint. So much to look at visually, the variations of play upon the eye are almost literally endless. There are so many viewpoints to take into account when viewing a painting like this. I even lay on the floor and look from as far down as I can get, compounded with Dirk Serries Microphonics music, the sensation is just one of visual bliss to me. This is the first painting I have completed since June and I must say Thank You to all that helped keep me going in this time. Here's to looking forward to the future. All my best to you!

And for a little bit of Dirks music...

A Dialog on Painting with Michael Bravo

It was about two weeks ago with a friend, Linguist Michael Bravo came to visit. We got to talking about my work and what you are about to experience is the culmination of that day, along with many views into my work you may not have seen before. This is in some ways, the only way I can reach out to those who have not yet seen my paintings in person, and to give them some of the views of my work that I get to enjoy everyday. There are so many wonderful views in these paintings and this is my only way of sharing them with you. Until we can get you to see them in person.




Enjoy. BTW, the audio was recorded with a Zoom H4n which is kind of binural so you'll hear me more in one side of your speakers and Michael in the other side. It's quite the amazing device for recording. It's what i've used in my interviews since day one.

JEFFREY COLLINS: PAINTER

 

Diary Entry 04-26-2015

I do believe today is a very active day for me. I learned that working on a number of paintings at the same time is more fulfilling than one at a time. Granted right now I don't have the materials to finish all these paintings, but I can sure work on them and get them all ready for the finishing touches....meaning the application of the texture medium. The last two days I spent gluing up two small chassis of 22X16 Inches or 55.88 X 40.64 CM for my rest of the world friends. It's always a joy to be able to create a painting almost from the ground up. Notice I said almost, I know I can't go out there and grow the tree, cut it down, and mill it up. But it sure feels good to know you built this thing with your own hands. Now they are ready for paint and I've been in the studio painting them white, getting them ready for whatever pigments they might call for.

I've also been working on my second fluorescent painted chassis, the first was orange, this next one is red. They sure do and will make for one heck of a contrast to what they will be paired with. The iphone I have doesn't do well for they types of colors, so bear with me.

The painting is not a landscape format as it is shown here, I prefer doing portrait format paintings. It's such a wonderful feeling to make new paintings, to create what one has never seen before, it's fun.

I've also decided to do my first all silver'ish painting. I've had this silvery gray yarn for a while now and been toying around on how to use it in the best way. I've had this chassis from the only yarn painting to be dismantled, and been wondering what was going to eventually be made from it. Now I know. And I feel it is going to be glorious. Pic below only shows the side and some of the back, I don't usually show that side to people, but it is a very important part of the painting as a whole.

I used to think painting one at a time was the way for me to go, but I now think that was because I simply didn't have the space to work on more than one at a time. Now I have the space and am truly enjoying going from one to the other, while one dries, I can be working on another painting. It's really kept me busy in the studio. One might think I'm getting ready for an exhibition. Well, it's just what being a painter is. It's what you do. Whether you have an exhibition coming up or not, you gotta paint.

Jeffrey

Interior, Exterior, and Textural...

My newest painting... 01-15-2015 has really upped the ante about how I am not only an exterior painter, the paint no longer sits on a flat surface. The paintings now also have an interior, one with which I am striving to learn about and explore. There is not much written about interior painting at present. There are only a handful of painters I know of that deal with the interior. Granted from looking at their work, their interior is not the same as mine, there's is more a byproduct of the exterior, whereas my paintings are definitely dealing with that elusive interior space between the front of the painting and the back, which my new paintings also deal with. What becomes of the wall, and the space that became the back of the painting, never looked at by anyone who didn't have the painting in their hands. In my original Yarn Painting #1, the interior, like the rest of those painters, was hardly there. Focusing more on the surface, and exterior. I blocked out as much as I felt I could of it, and only gave a slight nod to the interior, by showing off the chassis. With the birth of the larger Yarn Paintings, the interior became inevitable and I began to realize it was something I needed to learn about.

01-15-2015

66 X 41.5 IN
167.64 X 105.41 CM
Acrylic on Acrylic Yarn on Painted Wood Chassis.

Left side interior detail.

The interior of this painting are really shown off in these pictures. You get the best sense I can give you in reproduction of how the light plays into the interior and finally onto the wall behind the painting. Click on the image to see a larger version so you can have more to enjoy.

These days I think a lot about Lucio Fontana along with Fabian Marcaccio. The two painters I feel were the first to explore the interior of painting.

Jeffrey

Brutal Whitness

Working on my second painting of 2015. I began in darkness, now I continue into almost absolute whiteness, augmented by Nickel Titanate Yellow. The texture in this particular painting is reminding me of Clyfford Still in it's jagged mannerisms. No more talking, time for the visual.

01-15-2015
66 X 41.5 IN
167.64 X 105.41 CM
Acrylic on Acrylic Yarn on Painted Wood Chassis.
 

 

Granted right now I do not have the space or wall for the nice painting on the white wall. The colors are exact, taken in daylight, no artificial bulbs to light the situation.

Please click to view the photos in the larger online format. Get in there and see it up close.

Thanks.
Jeffrey

New Landscape...New Year.

2015 has begun with some nice pleasant gifts unto me and my family. I will only be focusing now on this new painting. I wanted to get some photos done of it before I do it again on a white wall. But for now, you can really peek into what I am accomplishing in my recent paintings. Can't wait to show this off to people, I especially can't wait till this weekend when one of my paintings...10-20-2014 will be included in the new Sideshow Nation III exhibition subtitled CIRCLE THE WAGONS!!! The exhibition opens: Saturday January 10 6-9PM and runs through March 15.

01-03-2015
Acrylic on Acrylic Yarn on Wood Chassis with Aluminum Frame.
30.5" X 67" in
77.47 X 170.18 cm
Click on images for larger scale.

Thanks, see ya soon.
Jeffrey

10-20-2014 and realizations...

I always feel like I get caught up on one aspect of being a painter. Usually the making part of things. But today, being an artist is so much more than just making the art. This website is a big part of being that artist. And must be attended to regularly, and with that, I say an honest sorry that I haven't been up to date on things here. My mind is always focused on new work and new ways to make my paintings, and even though there is as many hours in a day as you put into it, I know that I haven't been doing that. If I had I do believe I would be in such a better place for myself, I am tired of being in this predicament and am ready for a serious change. Time to put more hours into my life. Enjoy this new painting that was the first photographed by someone other than myself. Learning art photography from Portrait Painter Stephen Bennett has really given me more a sense of my own photographs. 


10-20-2014
Acrylic on Acrylic Yarn on Wood Chassis.
22 X 16"
55.88 X 40.64 CM
Photos by Stephen Bennett

Thanks.
Jeffrey

Yarn 1-2-3-4

After all these updates. I completely forgot to add in the first of the Yarn Paintings I completed back in Ohio. 

Four seminal works that gave birth to the "Elk Paintings"

Each acrylic textured painting is on an acrylic coated poplar chassis, 

except #1 which is raw poplar wood.

Dimensions are 22X16 IN or 55.88 X 40.64 CM

As follows.

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2

3

4

Thanks for viewing!