Jim Green

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

 

 

In 2020, I began blending computer graphics with mixed media. After learning how to produce virtual images using GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), I switched to Photoshop and started a series titled 'Painting, Not-Painting ' not to rebuke the act of using paint but to use and reference it as a medium that is constantly teetering on the verge of overuse. Each of my works merges a combination of distinctly different components that I pull from a variety of sources (personal photos, cartoons, online images, newspaper and magazine photos, TV and music video screenshots). I then edit everything, taking the picture through many iterations driven by an open-ended stream of consciousness, which creates a consistent shifting of visual references until all of the elements coalesce into a cohesive visual scenario. as a zone of resolution. Instead, he treated it as a medium forever teetering on the verge of collapse

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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.