Hey guys, be proud of me!
I wrote my first real artist’s statement today, in preparation for an art show I’m going to be collaborating with, under Lowbrow Society and showing my own art in. The show is called “Desire” and is being organized by talented costume designer and multimedia artist, Laura Sheedy.
Lenora Jayne, Illustrator & Graphic Artist
Lenora Jayne is a Brooklyn-based and Neptune-bound pink-haired space cadet. A recent dropout from Parsons School of Design, she has since expanded her exploration of the universe to new creative disciplines including illustration, design, fashion, photography, painting and modeling.
Lenora’s mixed-media hyper-pop artwork uses bright, multi-layered and often luminous surfaces to create a visual depth that is both appealing to our sensibilities and intricate to the eye. Her materials include traditional media such as spray paint, gouache, collage and colored pencil seamlessly mixed with digital imagery and Photoshop. As a technophile, her interests include futurology, space exploration, and the effects of technology on human interaction. Her artwork also often explores themes of femininity and identity within the context of personal narrative and storytelling. Lenora work has been described as a “grown-up Lisa Frank on acid.”
This is my statement, which made me pretty happy to write. It’s a nice summation of what I’m obsessed with right now. And it’s really good to finally feel like I’m understanding exactly what my voice is, as an artist, and what that means. For a very, very long time I felt like I didn’t have any direction as an artist and just drew cute, fashion-y girls. Really, I think I’ve just learned how to re-contextualize it and understand why I do what I do.
I’m starting to conceptualize my pieces for the show now. I want to make a series of imaginary digital love-letters, things never sent or said. I’m tentatively planning on working with typography and digital prints, paper-cutouts, spraypaint and colored pencil, and including some of my old writings, as well. (Yeah, it’s my dirty secret: I used to write poetry.) We’ll see, sometimes I get overly ambitious.
Anyway, I’ve never written one of these statements before.
What do you think? Anything I left out? Grossly exaggerated?
Not enough florid, pseudo-intellectual terminology?
Artist’s Statement
Hey guys, be proud of me!
I wrote my first real artist’s statement today, in preparation for an art show I’m going to be collaborating with, under Lowbrow Society and showing my own art in. The show is called “Desire” and is being organized by talented costume designer and multimedia artist, Laura Sheedy.
Lenora Jayne, Illustrator & Graphic Artist
Lenora Jayne is a Brooklyn-based and Neptune-bound pink-haired space cadet. A recent dropout from Parsons School of Design, she has since expanded her exploration of the universe to new creative disciplines including illustration, design, fashion, photography, painting and modeling.
Lenora’s mixed-media hyper-pop artwork uses bright, multi-layered and often luminous surfaces to create a visual depth that is both appealing to our sensibilities and intricate to the eye. Her materials include traditional media such as spray paint, gouache, collage and colored pencil seamlessly mixed with digital imagery and Photoshop. As a technophile, her interests include futurology, space exploration, and the effects of technology on human interaction. Her artwork also often explores themes of femininity and identity within the context of personal narrative and storytelling. Lenora work has been described as a “grown-up Lisa Frank on acid.”
This is my statement, which made me pretty happy to write. It’s a nice summation of what I’m obsessed with right now. And it’s really good to finally feel like I’m understanding exactly what my voice is, as an artist, and what that means. For a very, very long time I felt like I didn’t have any direction as an artist and just drew cute, fashion-y girls. Really, I think I’ve just learned how to re-contextualize it and understand why I do what I do.
I’m starting to conceptualize my pieces for the show now. I want to make a series of imaginary digital love-letters, things never sent or said. I’m tentatively planning on working with typography and digital prints, paper-cutouts, spraypaint and colored pencil, and including some of my old writings, as well. (Yeah, it’s my dirty secret: I used to write poetry.) We’ll see, sometimes I get overly ambitious.
Anyway, I’ve never written one of these statements before.
What do you think? Anything I left out? Grossly exaggerated?
Not enough florid, pseudo-intellectual terminology?