Website: www.jeremiahdreeves.com
School: Pratt
Media: Painting
Why I rock:
I can write about art just fine, it is hard to write about my own. At least my paintings are the hardest to talk about. Sometimes, I don’t really know what I’m saying. I just paint it. Then I see what needs to be fixed or brought out, or balanced and I do that. I don’t really have a voice yet. I’m not really tackling the issues within me, but combining minimal content or ideas and playing with the plasticity of the paint. I feel so naive… I haven’t ever written an artist statement before.

I can tell you that my work is governed by line and color. I can also tell you that I am influenced by the art that has come before me. I use color as an expressive means. Line helps solidify, separate, divide, strengthen and diminish what is on my canvas. Color does the same. I paint until it ‘feels’ right; until thought merges with emotion as synthesized by sight.

This synthesis produces what I refer to as ‘my myth.’ I read once that a myth is a union between logic and intuition. This is what I am after. Sometimes this myth becomes a story; hence narrative resonates in my paint. Sometimes this is a dialogue between the images. Sometimes it is the mere presence of my marks reciting the details of their creation.