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JL Greenman

This show represents seven years of artistic development. My dormant artist within was rekindled in 2019 recovering from a major surgery and given space to flourish in 2020 when the pandemic put me out of work. My love of working with ink comes from the ephemeral moment of surface tension when the ink glistens and flows onto the paper off the end of a glass pen and shines for just a moment before stabilizing and sinking in. Each touch of the nib brings a new moment of tension and release where all else falls away. I have always been fascinated by patterns within patterns and the concept of a pattern so expansive that it’s unknowable. I’m continually inspired by the geometry of nature, architecture, astronomy, and form constants. From hard lines to flowing particles, each piece represents hours in a flow state letting the shape and color emerge, line by line, dip by dip, and dot by dot. While it's fun to zoom in on all the dots, the true impact of these pieces appears when you get some distance from them and relax your eyes. So step back from your screen or hold your phone at arm's length. You'll find that more shadow and depth jumps out that way. One of the reasons I prefer non-representational art is because it evokes something different in each viewer. You are able to both project and extract meaning and connection individual to you. I truly love watching how people engage my art on their own terms with their own lens. Often you will see something that I never did but then I can’t unsee it. And I love that. --JL Greenman