| Jon Rader Jarvis has Bachelor's
degrees in Painting and Printmaking and a Master's degree
in Painting, all from the University of Washington. He has
taught painting, drawing, and printmaking at the UW and
Highline College, other community colleges, and workshops
at Pratt and other locations around Puget Sound. He has
shown in regional and national exhibitions including the
Northwest Annual, Northwest Watercolor Society shows, and
the Society of American Graphic Artists shows in NY. He
is represented by the George Wright Gallery on Vashon Island.
His stated philosophy, repeated for his students, is
that we should make choices from knowledge, not ignorance.
The greater the knowledge about art making, the better
the result. A firm believer in positive criticism, he
leads a short critique at the end of almost every class.
With a sense of humor and an appreciation of the joy that
art making can bring, his classes tend to be popular and
well attended.
Called a colorist and a neo-realist. His images come
from the commonplace to show the beauty in everyday objects
and places. Since an early age he has been called a Renaissance
man. He is an accomplished web designer and uses web sites
as teaching tools in his classes; class notes and student
work are presented online as the class progresses. His
work and earlier class notes are available on the internet.
http://www.jonraderjarvis.com/classes.htm
ARTIST'S
STATEMENT
For “image-makers” who value beauty in fine
art, the quest is to recognize, capture, and if possible,
enhance the visual experience so that it might be shared,
by the viewer. We are surrounded by a cacophony of mundane
images. I hope to capture moments of sublime beauty and
truth, translate and filter them through my own experience
& training to produce a taste of the sublime for a
shared experience. I hope to express and share a tiny
part of the thrill I felt making the image. When this
works I am justified.
Abstract expression co-opted the vocabulary of realist
painting, saying that the terms "realism" or
"realist-painting" should be used exclusively
with a painting style that purports to be nothing more
or less than paint & canvas. With that in mind I must
hope to be considered a master of illusion in paint, and
I have occasionally adopted the alchemy term "adept"
to call myself an "adept of illusion".
Putting together my preference for mundane subject-matter
and my goal of accurate illusion, I might be called a
second generation pop-artist and philosophical descendant
of the structuralists and hyper-realists. Ultimately,
posterity will decide.
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BIOGRAPHY
