Nympheas – Ascending from Murky Waters

Product Description

24″ x 18″ x 1.8″, Oil on Panel

Current Exhibition at Flower Pepper Gallery: Syncopated: Four Audio Tribes from March 7th to April 7th, 2015

Previous Exhibitions at Flower Pepper Gallery:
- 3rd Year Anniversary Show from December 6th, 2014 to January 6th, 2015
- The Brave Ones from Oct 10th to Nov 5th, 2014
- Of History And Hope from April 5th to May 2nd, 2014

Artist Statement:
“When I was asked to create works based on the emotive nature of music, I was so excited. Visual art and music are two creative processes that both have the wonderful potential to transcend our emotions. Sometimes music can fee like a rushing water or waves as your body sways to the music, other times it can feel calming and lull one into a sweet crimson slumber. I can’t help but think of the playfulness of song and dance as well and the freedom of letting oneself get lost in the music.”

Artist Biography:
Jaclyn Alderete was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where her passion for art began at a young age. She began using oil paint as a teenager, soon discovering its expressive quality both a challenge and catalyst for further exploration. After moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2001, her interest in nature led her to draw connections between the natural world and the human experience. Through artistic enquiry, she found the resiliency in the power of both nature and humanity to overcome tribulations. Instead of focusing on shortcomings and the inevitable impediments to the human journey, she illustrates that flaws can lead to novel paths of understanding.

Using her figurative depictions and expressive brush strokes to convey the uniquely human spectrum of emotion, she further commands the impression of the viewer through painterly techniques which serve to unsettle the composition. Subjects are often simultaneously distinct from, and merged with, their environments, as part of the figure or background are blurred while other parts are clearly defined. Accompanying her inquisitive and thoughtful figures is multi-faceted symbolism. Among her favorite subjects are birds, insects, fish, flowers, plants, and moving water. Many represent empathy, fragility, vision, and our ever-changing existence. Her use of a broad and muted palette along with powerful contrasts produces a deeply contemplative quality, which, when interrupted by brief flashes of color, informs the viewer’s perception of the motif.

Jaclyn has shown in galleries nationwide, and continues to create art on a daily basis. Her hunger for understanding and interest in the strange and beautiful serve as her impulse to further develop her metier.

Artist Website: http://jaclynalderete.com/home.html

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