| Jon
Rader Jarvis was born in Wichita, KS. He 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, Pierce
College, Highline College, and other community colleges,
and workshops at numerous other locations around Puget Sound.
He has shown in regional and national exhibitions including
the American Watercolor Society, Northwest Annual, Northwest
Watercolor Society shows, and the Society of American Graphic
Artists shows in NY. He is represented by the Heron's Nest
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 as well as an heir
to the structuralists & precisionists, and a second
generation Pop artist.. 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, precisionists and hyper-realists.
Ultimately, posterity will decide.
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