american artist
Jennie Traill Schaeffer
Oil Painting
The
process of applying pigmented oil to a
surface - pushing it, mixing it, turning it
into the essence of something conveying
meaning - becomes a playful, intellectual, and
spiritual experience. I play with paint, mixing brushes
and knives to create the topography of gesture. In
the words of artist Wayne Thiebaud, “Manipulation
of paint is key.”
What emerges from this experience are not
abstractions, but realist paintings featuring vintage
kitchen appliances, food stuff, wedding cake portraits
and aprons that are re-contextualized. I explore the
relationship of the subjects as an almost religious
icon, as a portrait. Everything I paint has an energy
that I strive to bring to the surface through emphatic
edges, vivid colors and heavily textured, gestural
brush strokes.
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