A number of current work by Midcoast Maine-based artist Jay Stern. That includes home interiors in vibrant colour with exaggerated nods to cubism and abstraction, Stern’s work triggers and questions reminiscence. Together with his ‘Laundry Day’ collection, he hopes to “doc and converse to identification, each because it masks and divulges internal complexities.” He elaborates: “The person made rack serves as a reminder of the spinal and stark nature of life; one thing that by no means adjustments, one thing dependable. Whereas the drying garments nod to the ever-changing and fluid dance that identification performs as we transfer by way of our days.”
Stern explores the nostalgic high quality of the moments that he paints by revealing particular bodily attributes in these private portraits from remembered areas. “The work maintain emotional narrative data, because the sculptures function easy documentation of physicality,” he explains. “Made out of historical past; the work serves as each a reminder of and swish wink towards the previous.”
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