BIO
Jacqueline Anton (b. 1994) graduated from Brown University with a BA in the Visual Arts department. She currently lives and works in San Diego, CA. Selected oil paintings were shown in the First and Second floor Galleries in the List Art Center at Brown University in 2015 and 2016. She was chosen to exhibit paintings in the juried Student Exhibition in the David Winton Bell Gallery in the List Art Center at Brown University in 2015 and 2016. She attended the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts in Paros, Greece in 2014.
STATEMENT
The art that I create, regardless of media, is inspired by nature. Forms, color, composition, light and placement of nature all appear in my drawings and paintings. When I see a natural form that I want to paint, I do not photograph it—instead I try to remember the image as best I can and let it circulate in my mind. The image changes as time passes depending on my memory of the moment and what I am thinking at the time. I often create a pattern out of these forms in an attempt to organize what I have seen. My recent work focuses both on line and color, creating a world that is not necessarily associated with nature by the viewer. Eventually, I paint the appropriated image. My process helps me to better understand and express the presence of nature in an urban setting, as well as the effects of an overload of photographic and symbolic images on my memory in contrast to true sight.