LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Jeremiah Douglas Stroud
An interview by Katherine Williams, curator and Josh Ryder, curator landescape @ europe. com
Artist Jeremiah Douglas Stroud ' s work establishes a channel of communication between abstraction and reality: he expertly captures the subtle nuances of his subjects ' atmosphere through a variety of techniques to challenge the relationship between the viewers ' perceptual parameters and their cultural substratum, inducing them to elaborate personal associations, offering them a multilayered aesthetic experience. One of the most impressive aspects of Stroud ' s work is the way it accomplishes a successful attempt to provide perceptual reality with a captivating abstract feeling. We are very pleased to introduce our readers to his multifaceted and stimulating artistic production.
Hello Jeremiah and welcome to LandEscape: before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background? You have a solid formal training and you hold a Bachelors in Fine Arts, that you received from the Columbus College of Art and Design and are on track to finish your Master ' s of
Fine Art by July 2017. How do your studies influence your evolution as an artist? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general?
I am a Midwest American. I am from a working middle-class family and an impoverished area of Southern Illinois. My education has influenced my artwork heavily, through being transplanted out of comfort zones and never putting roots down in a particular area. Going from a small town, like Broughton, IL., to a large city like Columbus, OH., was a big change in perception of America. Then, moving from America to The Netherlands for my Master ' s, allowed me to sit outside of what I am and question everything about the structure of my psychology formed by the American culture. I am a position now to create work that plays on American symbolism and ideologies.
Your approach is very personal and your technique condenses a variety of viewpoints, that you combine together into a coherent balance. We would suggest to our readers to visit http:// www. stroudworks. com in order to get a synoptic view of your work: in the
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