My regular studio practice as an abstract painter is usually concerned with elements like mass and momentum, color and gesture. This figurative project has pushed me in a much more personal and emotionally expressive direction as a response to the times, and called upon my figurative experience from classes, workshops and sketch groups over the years.
I began this project in the pit of pandemic 2020, as a way to channel my feelings of alarm, confusion, anxiety, fatigue and isolation. I created these abstracted heads 6 or 10 at a time, in charcoal on acid-free printer paper with acrylic paint, dry media and fine art spray paint. This kept me busy until I had 100 of them, but the pandemic didn't stop, so I kept going. Proceeds from sales went to the LA Food Bank.
Eventually I hung an 8 x 10-foot sheet of acid-free backdrop paper on the studio wall, aimed a bright light at it, took off my clothes and traced my silhouette over and over again to create a pair of full-figurative mixed-media murals I call The Shadow Men.
Read a review of the project by Mat Gleason, L.A. gallerist, curator, critic and publisher.
Featured in the collected works Time in the Time of Isolation curated by Cinthia Penna,
and a piece on artists working in the pandemic by Kristine Schomaker in the journal Art and Cake.
The Shadow Men, 95 x 110 and 91 x 110
charcoal, graphite, China marker, acrylic, paint stick and spray paint
on acid-free backdrop paper (click image to enlarge)
The Isolation Portraits, each: 11” x 8-1/2” acrylic, charcoal, graphite, acrylic stick, oil stick, China marker and fine art spray paint on acid-free bond paper with archival fixative and varnish, some with collaged newsprint or paper. Signed/numbered on verso.
To inquire, please email studio@jeffiorillo.com.
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