If my mother is to be believed, I was born an artist. I have always been scratching, scribbling and coloring.
I have done a great many things on my short time on this rock. I have been a technician working on transponders for spacecraft; my pinky prints are on radios that traveled all the way to Venus and to Jupiter as well as a few super secret satellites that are probably looking down on us right now. I have been a scientist, probing the universe on a very small scale. I can tell you God plays dice. I have seen the beauty of numbers. In addition to being a student of the world I have also been a teacher and a traveler. I have climbed mountains, raced the wind, swam in oceans, written, and lived, heck I've even been the lead singer in a Rock and Roll Band, although it wasn't a very good one.
I seldom pass on the chance to smell a rose. I always watch at least one sunset over the ocean whenever I find myself on the West Coast. I always see the world though my eyes, these woman artist's eyes.
Through all my life, like a drumbeat, a heartbeat, there is always this scratching, scribbling, coloring. "What is that girl doing over there? Oh, she is drawing pictures again." I have pages of sketches going all the way back to my childhood. Everything I have ever experienced, all the people I have ever known, every where I have ever been, even in my imagination, all these things are just material for my passion, scratching, scribbling, coloring.
I believe that I am good at these acts of creation. I hope the viewer enjoys what I have painted. But even if that were not the case, I would still paint, scratch, scribble and color. - Jake
Selected Shows * Art Detour 20 MOB5 at the Kollectiv - March 2008 * Underwater Fantasea Arizona Museum for Youth March - July 2007 * Art Detour 18 MonOrchid Mystery Gallery Mob March 2006 * Sunday At Shemer November 2005 * Introducing McDowell Row, Garfield Galleria Suite 102 November 2005 * Third Annual Herberger College of Fine Art Artwalk at ASU's Reunion FestDevil October 2005 * Two Artists Two Visions Guest artist Cobalt Blue Gallery Phoenix AZ October 2005 * Grand Opening of the Phix Gallery Phoenix AZ May 2004 * White Lace, Promises and Big Black Dogs at The Paper Heart Gallery Phoenix AZ December 2003 * artlink, Inc. Mystery Gallery 111 West Monroe Phoenix AZ July-September 2003
Bodies of work * Abstract: Often people have asked why I put that thing in front of that lovely abstract, these I left alone * PopCult: Explorations into the absurdities of pop culture. Its really fun. * Figurative: The human form in action and in repose * Cruise: The romance and fantasy that is roaring down the open road in low flight. * Pastel: Exploring new ideas rapidly brought life through the medium that is pastel. * Aerial: Exploring the abstract qualities of aerial landscape, with birds. * Exploratory Stuff: New ideas that I am kicking around. * Fractal Dreams: Paintings exploring the beauty of fractals, tessellations, mathematics and their connection to the natural world. * Graffiti Series: Primitive archetypes, motifs, limited color pallets produced on canvas textured with pumice. * Folks and Critters: Portraits and figurative works, people and animals. * The Cactus Flower Series: Studies of native desert flowers of the southwest. * The Alaska Series: Investigations into Pacific Northwest mythology: ravens, whales, Dalls sheep, otters, owls, auroras and starscapes. * Sticks: These paintings hark to time spent camping in Northern AZ at the So High Ranch: Aspens and Pine Trees. * Red Rocks: Paintings inspired by Oak Creek Canyon and Sedona AZ: Riparian scenes, sculpted red rocks, rounded gray rocks, water and trees. * Xmas Dementia Series: Annual visitation in to the absurdities of holiday mythology created in digital cartoons. * The Formative Series: Explorations of Stories to be Told. Detailed paintings of the fantastic and surreal.
Summary of Performances * Managing Member Art and Business Consulting LLC: 2006-Present. * Doing business as AKAJake, Renaissance Woman: 1996-Present * Strategic volunteer for artlink, Inc.: 2004 * Board Member and President of artlink, Inc.: 2002-2003 * Nuclear Physicist and Graduate Slave: 1993-1996 * Clueless Undergraduate: 1988-1993 * Electronics Wizard, Mountain Climber and Frustrated Artist: 1981-1988 * Globetrotting Military Brat and Clueless Artist: -1981
Travels: Austria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and USA
Grants * GAANN Fellowship 1993 * GAANN Fellowship 1994 Education * MS Nuclear Physics, ASU Tempe, AZ 1996 * BS Physics, ASU Tempe, AZ 1993 * Barrett Honors College Graduate, ASU 1993 * Self-realized Artist.
Affiliations * NAEA, AZSEA, CACEA 2007 - present * AIPB 2006 - present * artlink, Inc. 2002-present * ACM 2002-present * SPS 1992-present * ARRL 1992-present * APS 1988-present * SPS 1988-1996
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