Jim Green

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(b. 1947, San Angelo, Texas, USA)

 

 

In 2020, I began blending computer graphics with paint. Rather than replicating or mimicking conventional painting, I use it as yet another tool to create visual information.

 

After learning how to produce virtual images using GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), I switched to Photoshop and started an going series titled, 'Cocktails'. My methodology is strictly improvisational. Each work is produced by turning my stream of consciousness into a constant shifting of visual references. I merge a combination of distinctly different components which I pull from a variety of sources (personal photos, cartoons, online images, newspaper and magazine photos, TV and music video screen shots). I then edit everything, taking the picture through many iterations until eventually all of the elements coalesce into a cohesive visual narrative, i.e., turning chaos into a kind of order. Producing a digitally painted picture, by making it up as I go along with no direction known, is a little like putting together a puzzle without looking at the picture on the box lid.

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My influences range from Rembrandt, Velázquez, Seurat, Magritte, Andrew Wyeth, Jim Dine, to the styles of the Neo-Expressionists, such as Julian Schnabel and Albert Oehlen. And there are far too many painters from the 90s, both American and German, to mention here, whose styles and approaches gave me new ways of looking at art. One particular mention goes to Jasper Johns. As a painter, his credo, "Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that", continues to be my main approach for creating pictures. 

My main focus is to create unique, non-reproducible "one-off" digital paintings, not as a substitute for conventional painting, but to provide a different approach to applying visual information on a 2D surface, particularly at a time when so many artworks are being produced using today's technologies and printing processes.