Fresh Air
March 2006
J + M, 2006, oil on canvas, 48 x 42 inches
Jacob Tillman received his BFA from California College of the Arts in 2008, and is currently an MFA Candidate in Painting at UCLA.
From Jacob Tillman, 2006:
"I’Äôve come to realize that mountains, and the great outdoors, have a profound effect on me. This series of paintings are an exploration of this effect. I have been using the vocabulary of landscape painting to generate and explore ’Äúnew wildernesses.’Äù As I recall experiences I have had in the mountains, the shocking beauty of these experiences seems exaggerated by my memory. I address this phenomenon by assembling my ’Äúlandscapes’Äù with spectacular, but impossible proportions, compositional experimentation, and bending the gravity of these ’Äúnew wildernesses.’Äù Because I choose to live in, and spend most of my time within the confines of the cities of the Bay Area, I endure a heightened desire to be in the mountains. I include this tension in the paintings by playing with multiple points of view, and by setting up relationships between forms that exist ’Äúwithin’Äù the illusion of the space, and paint handling that sits on the surface of the picture."
artist's website: jacobtillman.com