Friday, January 31, 2020

2001 Reviewed

2001 was a big year for me in my development of my painting. I mostly made larger work in this year. Pretty much didn't stray from the 48 X 36 IN painting size, which is my personal favorite. It's small enough to move around, but large enough to take up a good sized wall to itself along with giving much visual candy for the viewer. I always like to talk about my work the way I see it. I use words like Visual Candy and Eye Candy to give you a peek into how much I enjoy making my own paintings.

Zoom in and enjoy. These are not super high definition photos like I shoot for these days. I haven't been able to photo them again but in time they will.


Untitled (Yellow and Green
On White)
60" X 40"
Acrylic and Wood Filler
On Canvas

This painting was made around the end of the year. I remember the first pouring of green I was able to pick up a forced air heater for the garage, I also brought out my vaporizer to help add more steam to the cold room. The temp got good enough to allow the green to dry. Once the green was down, I knew it was going to need another color, I made the yellow and poured it, but that time I only used the vaporizer to warm up the room, it did a good enough job and I think it even helped the yellow to have a wonderful transparent look to it. You can see some of the knifework for the texture is not as heavy or compressed as other paintings. It ended up really allowing the yellow to veil out on the green under color. 


Untitled (Yellow on Violet)
60" X 40"
Acrylic and Wood Filler
on Canvas
Private Collection 

First painting I sold. Funny thing is I made it and the collectors who got it are from my new town I presently live in, Reynoldsburg, Ohio. The colors of the local high school teams are Yellow and Purple. Kinda funny that they chose this painting. They in time bought another too. I was definitely going for a different type of making in my texture with this painting. It's much more shaped like a person scratching at a prison wall.


Untitled (For Pollock)
48" X 36"
Acrylic and Wood Filler
on Canvas 

Here's a red painting I made. I was in the process of making intricately glazed backgrounds with this painting and a few that became in the future.


Untitled
48" X 36"
Acrylic and Wood Filler
On Canvas
Private Collection 

I wasn't going for a super thick surface with this one as you can tell in the reproduction. This is one of the few mixed pour colored paintings I made around this time. I only made a couple more after I had some bad choices in colors since the colors mix so much on the surface after the manipulation. Who knows what paintings like this have in store for future work. This painting was included in my first solo at Studio ASH Gallery in Columbus Ohio. It was more of a place for the owners graphic design business, but he and his wife wanted to show work they thought was great. I was honored they chose me for a show with them. We eventually worked out a trade for webwork and server updates they got this painting. I'm glad they have it in their home.


Untitled
66" X 48"
Acrylic and Wood Filler
on Canvas 

I remember painting this in spring I believe, my Father was around for the original pouring of blue over the yellow. This was one that was primed white and the sealed over the texture in white. This was another when it was finished I knew right away that it was complete. Just the right balance of things occurring within.


Untitled
48" X 36"
Acrylic and Wood Filler
On Canvas

This painting was thought of once as a silver painting. Once the silver was down, it was too opaque so I began to look into what color would go right with the two on it already. I would love to make this again and one day will do so. You can see the movement of the texture is much more free and sweeping compared to older paintings which were much less free in gesture.


Untitled
50" X 38"
Acrylic and Wood Filler
on Canvas  

This painting is an exercise in size. I was wondering what I could do with a slightly bigger format to my favorite. I later learned it wouldn't travel as well as the 4ft, since 4ft is the biggest you can fit in the floorboards of the back seat of many sedans. I really wanted to try some clashing colors to see how I could make them work. I was also becoming much more in tune with the texture I was using which is called Wood Filler. It's basically made for filling in small holes in wood projects. At this time I didn't know there was Light Molding paste made by a few companies that would eventually become my material. During the 2000 year, I learned to make the material last longer and do more for me, as you can see here the movement of the texture is much more prominent here, much bigger strokes and movement. Once the texture was dried for 24 hours, I would seal it with acrylic medium, and then begin my pouring and manipulations.


November Painting
48" X 36"
Acrylic and Wood Filler
On Canvas

When I put this painting in it's only exhibition it's been in, a fan was talking with me about it and we were discussing music that one listens to while working. He asked and I told him I was listening to Metallica. Most likely my favorite album of theirs which funny enough is all cover songs. If you don't know, go look it up.

I used to really enjoy painting to music. The last time I was able to do that was when I was living in Tamaqua. I usually just paint with the tv on some kind of art show or documentary. For the longest time that video was PAINTERS PAINTING. Now it's moved onto many others which I have on all my favorite painters.

Thanks for viewing. More to come. @jeffreymcollins

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

January Memories 3

Funny thing about "11-18-2011" was since it was so big I couldn't get it to NYC for the exhibition at Sideshow. Funny how life works out. Wasn't very long before I tried to send that off, I got an opportunity to exhibit with one of the best painters in Ohio at Marcia Evans Gallery. Marc Ross. Marc called up and said Hey you wanna be in a show with me at Marcia's. I said SURE. Typical of a pending exhibition I wasn't too worried about what I was going to exhibit as I knew I had plenty of great work for her space. But once 11-18-2011 didn't make it to NYC, I felt it was a great addition to my next show.

Here are the photos from that opening. I had a particular painting, "05-02-2011" that I knew I wanted to exhibit since I truly felt it was my most subtle painting I had made. For years I had been working on using glazing as my pouring, transparency was the name of my pouring-ism at the time. I had always loved transparent colors for my pourings but that didn't always come out the way I had desired. When I learnt about Dale Chihuly and his glass work, I immediately knew I had more work to do with the transparency of my colors on a canvas. 05-02-2011 I still feel is the pinnacle of my transparency in painting. The entire work barely has any pigment to it at all, except a very thin grey pouring over the texture. Even the canvas was coated only in acrylic medium. Well, once that painting had been hung, I began working the lighting to see what I could do with it. I grabbed for the light and in one swoop of the light, I had lit it as perfectly as I could. It immediately began to glow and I knew I had made the right choice in this painting.



Once it was lit. I HAD to grab a photo.


In the studio/bedroom as it was drying.

As the show was being hung.

From out front.





Marc Ross, Marcia Evans and I.



 

Thursday, January 16, 2020

January Memories 2

The thing is that particular painting was NOT my first choice. This one was...



The problem that happened was it was too big to send out. I had it boxed up and taped, address on it and everything. Then I tried putting it in our car to take it to the USPS. Not gonna work, car was too small. I can fit a 48" X 36" painting in the car, but it can only be that size. Since this was with a box, that wasn't going to happen. Thankfully my neighbor was around and he helped bring the painting to the Post Office. Funny thing is he works for the PO but couldn't tell me what the ladies at the store were going to say. It turned out it was too big to go through their standard shipping routes. So deflated as I was, I was about to get more deflated, since our neighbor had left when the box was at the store. We still had to figure a way to get it home. What I did was I sat in the back seat with the painting hanging out the back and me using all my pressure to keep the painting INSIDE the car on the trip back home. We live not that far away from the USPS store. Maybe 3/4 Mile maybe.

Once the painting was back home. I began looking for it's replacement. I found the painting I did send, we packed it up, much easier than before. And this time it did fit in the car. A few days later it was at SIDESHOW GALLERY, and I was officially an artist that was about to exhibit in New York City for the first time.

Jeffrey

January Memories 1

I didn't realize until just minutes ago that a number of my exhibitions have all been in January. From my first NYC exhibition that I was in to the next year when I was in my first small group exhibition in Chelsea. Just spending a moment to remember the wonderful opportunities that have come around the beginning of the new year.

My first NYC exhibition was 2013 in Williamsburg Brooklyn at Sideshow Gallery, Owner Richard Timperio got known for holding the biggest and most democratic exhibition on the planet. It ran until the year he passed away, when most of the work was done by all the wonderful helpers that Rich always was blessed to have around him. I cannot take away from Rich's eye for hanging exhibitions. The guy could have given classes on it. But how do you teach something that is so ingrained within you?

The first show I was in there was called SIDESHOW NATION. There were around 500 artists from around the world in this show. Mostly I think everyone was from the NY area, along with a number of us who sent in work. I sent this painting in...


It was also one of the paintings I took to visit Joseph Marioni, he liked it and put it on his wall. I was very happy. 



Here it is hanging UP in Sideshow Gallery, photo taken by Peter Reginato. I was filming that night because Loren Munk couldn't be there himself. I didn't film the show the way he would have, but I did a pretty good job.




Wednesday, January 8, 2020

01-03-2019

Journey from white painting to white painting. Funny how at the beginning of 2019 I was making this one and now a year later I am working on a larger white painting. That one is 72 X 52 IN which is a favorite size of mine. I have always found the 60IN wide to be just too much for that typical size. I found the 52" size has more in common with my favorite size chassis of 48 X 36IN. Which in turn makes the painting a bit more tall and just looks better to my eye.

This painting in particular has garnered many wonderful compliments. It was by far one of the most viewed in my recent Solo Exhibition in Dayton curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones at his and Heather Jones' DIVISIBLE Gallery. It is a continuation of the large Blue painting that was in my first Solo Exhibition in NYC at 60 Greene St (REGINATO STUDIO). Using thicker ropes and later combining them with the acrylic yarn which brings new levels of texture into my work. You can see it in the details. Click on the image to see it larger. Or save as... to see the even larger version of the digital file.

01-03-2019
48 X 36 IN
Acrylic on Acrylic Yarn and Poly Rope on Painted Wood Chassis 
Available now at Saatchi Art










Monday, January 6, 2020

09-17-2019


Welcome back to the site. It's been a while since I last really updated the page. So I wanted to begin by sharing one of my favorites from 2019.

09-17-2019
48 X 36 IN
Acrylic on Acrylic Yarn and Poly Rope on Painted Wood Chassis.
Buy it now on Saatchi Art.

Enjoy the viewing. Hopefully you'll be able to see it in person this year.







 

Have a tremendous and prosperous 2020!

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