"...steamy glimpses and cold realities." - soul pain art
"just when you think an artist has completely defined their style, they create something even more meaningful ... art that embodies the id and ego." - in regards to "mind puke of appropriated crap" - pop schmear forum, 2006
"... amazing "new" post contemporary art brought on and manifested through the subconscious mind of an individual who probably slipped through the cracks as early as middle-school." - hot garbage magazine, 2006
"popular culture in a blender ... finally, an artist who is more interested in art and form than pleasing a tired out sub-culture that craves cookie-cutter surrealist fluff." - shear maddness magazine, 2005
"... the new works just eats the mundane and vernacular..." - art face weekly, 2006
Artist Statement
i would say most of my work depicts my inner desires and fears that have been eating away at me for as long as i can remember. it is a pure, raw expression of what is going on deep inside my head. most of my work thus far has been symbolic in dealing in an autobiographical vain undertoned universally by the most basic human fears and social anxiety. i am particularly interested in understanding the unlikely relationships and the juxtaposition of social boundaries. boundaries that create tension within our culture which, in turn, leads to isolation and exclusion. my work is an investigation of cause and effect in relation to culture and counter culture. this has always been something that has eluded me and intrigued me both at the same time.
most of my work has always been slightly political, which is something i feel is somewhat of an obligation and responsibility of an artist - that is, to recreate or comment on the world we live in through their own minds-eye. a good example of this through my work is "torpedo love on an open faced sandwich," "undisclosed deviation from man, " and the multimedia drawing "lip fungi - gamma 32." such is the way i ambiguously name the work using the same concept. all in which there is much symbolism that i invite my viewers to make up there own ideas or opinions about what i am trying to convey to them.
my work in the last year or so, has been increasingly chaotic and informationally crammed with mental puke. i feel for the most part this is correct because as far as my personal tastes go i enjoy art that is completely disconnected visually from "direct messaging" and as far away from the obvious as much as possible. i prefer to work in artistic code using a language i developed over a long time. all of my work is done without any pre-sketches with everything included; ghost lines, too-do notes, checkbook balances, shopping lists, mistakes, spills/coffee stains etc. etc. creating a "timeline" of events that lead to it's creation. most of it is just based off of a feeling that i get or emotion that i am feeling at the time that kind of forces its way out in artistic form through a technique i call, "reveal/conceal". my works are usually completed very fast within three to four hours and are very raw and emotional in the way they look at the end. most of my past works have dealt with the darker side of the emotional scope, dealing with anxiety, tension, hate, depression, disconnection, dysfunction and the feeling related with that. an art form that i call "dysfunctionalism".
i believe my work is as valid and informative to the viewer as it is to me. it takes time to “get to know” the work in the sense of a personal relationship, and just when you thought you knew the piece, you find out something different or it surprises you. it seems as if the work is always holding something back or telling half-truths. that is the nature of art, the irony of birth and life, death and dying. this sort of companionship leads to dysfunctional relationships, a love/hate existence if you will. whatever personal, real, subconscious, or surreal that's in me gets personified in my work. its always a really strong idea of feeling inside of myself that floods out like an overfilled cup flowing out in a ticker-tape of popular culture crap, it forces itself from a single thought or inspiration into something the whole world can see and relate too."
- jake cole 2006
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