Jackson Bryant 'The Flower Ritual'
Drawer 1- The Flower Ritual, pen on paper 12x10 2020
Artist Statement
Over the past year when I began making block-printed wallpaper for a living, I started creating this series of drawings. Staring at and making patterns all day, I have spent my professional time in a world of visual repetition. I find repetition itself to be pleasing, as even the most simple of motifs and symbols become satisfying once they are continuously duplicated. In these drawings, I take that idea to an extreme: taking a simple triangular grid and distorting it to create tantalizing spaces, objects, and shapes. Similar to the intention of the Optical art movement of the 1960s, this series aims to highlight the very pleasure of seeing. However, unlike most Op art of that time, these paintings play with figuration and depict a kind of stoned sincerity by utilizing simple computer drawings to depict basic representative forms. These drawings were originally drafted on the computer and then were transformed through a pen plotting computer-assisted device.
Artist Bio
Jackson Bryant is from Albany, NY. He recently graduated from Skidmore College with a degree in anthropology. His work utilizes a wide variety of mediums depending on the project he is working on, ranging from 3d printing and design to painting and drawing, video, and many more. His work is often humorous.
Drawer 1- The Flower Ritual, pen on paper 12x10 2020
Artist Statement
Over the past year when I began making block-printed wallpaper for a living, I started creating this series of drawings. Staring at and making patterns all day, I have spent my professional time in a world of visual repetition. I find repetition itself to be pleasing, as even the most simple of motifs and symbols become satisfying once they are continuously duplicated. In these drawings, I take that idea to an extreme: taking a simple triangular grid and distorting it to create tantalizing spaces, objects, and shapes. Similar to the intention of the Optical art movement of the 1960s, this series aims to highlight the very pleasure of seeing. However, unlike most Op art of that time, these paintings play with figuration and depict a kind of stoned sincerity by utilizing simple computer drawings to depict basic representative forms. These drawings were originally drafted on the computer and then were transformed through a pen plotting computer-assisted device.
Artist Bio
Jackson Bryant is from Albany, NY. He recently graduated from Skidmore College with a degree in anthropology. His work utilizes a wide variety of mediums depending on the project he is working on, ranging from 3d printing and design to painting and drawing, video, and many more. His work is often humorous.
Drawer 1- The Flower Ritual, pen on paper 12x10 2020
Artist Statement
Over the past year when I began making block-printed wallpaper for a living, I started creating this series of drawings. Staring at and making patterns all day, I have spent my professional time in a world of visual repetition. I find repetition itself to be pleasing, as even the most simple of motifs and symbols become satisfying once they are continuously duplicated. In these drawings, I take that idea to an extreme: taking a simple triangular grid and distorting it to create tantalizing spaces, objects, and shapes. Similar to the intention of the Optical art movement of the 1960s, this series aims to highlight the very pleasure of seeing. However, unlike most Op art of that time, these paintings play with figuration and depict a kind of stoned sincerity by utilizing simple computer drawings to depict basic representative forms. These drawings were originally drafted on the computer and then were transformed through a pen plotting computer-assisted device.
Artist Bio
Jackson Bryant is from Albany, NY. He recently graduated from Skidmore College with a degree in anthropology. His work utilizes a wide variety of mediums depending on the project he is working on, ranging from 3d printing and design to painting and drawing, video, and many more. His work is often humorous.