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My work is the compression of 40 years of making art, both bad and good, and relies heavily on the imperfect and the accidental by removing painterly traces and revealing the underlying silent ghosts of what has just been destroyed; the appreciation and collaboration with the blank space to offer up a sudden appearance of colors, juxtapositions and revelations of new light while I swim in a slipstream of optimistic and patient revelation. I am reliant on my own sense of space and when I am in a fluid and am experiencing a facile moment, my agility brings forth uncanny and savory imperfect images. This quirkiness is my bread and butter.
For me, painting is an act of procreation of essential visual moments that allows me, as proxy, to challenge the viewers eyes to contemplate a fixed area and consider what was not there before I interceded. I once read on a gravestone from a 16th century in a cemetery in Rhode Island, ‘First I wasn’t, then I was, now I ain’t again.’”
Glenn Jampol
July, 2010, Costa Rica |
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