Please join us March 24th for a intimate portrait exhibition, and refreshments at the Central Properties office.
Event is free with RSVP.
Artist Statement for 6 Hats:
I am a gold digger with this series of portraits. I am searching for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. That rainbow is somewhere inside everyone. I am searching for the pure unadulterated, erotic, irreconcilability housed deep inside each and every person. I would like to know what is in there, and I am looking to g...
Please join us March 24th for a intimate portrait exhibition, and refreshments at the Central Properties office.
Event is free with RSVP.
Artist Statement for 6 Hats:
I am a gold digger with this series of portraits. I am searching for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. That rainbow is somewhere inside everyone. I am searching for the pure unadulterated, erotic, irreconcilability housed deep inside each and every person. I would like to know what is in there, and I am looking to get messy. The journey into these people’s lives should hurt a little, as it makes us look at ourselves. It should make us take a moment to sit with our ugly, and evaluate what it takes to be vulnerable with others. I am pretending to be a therapist, pretending to be a scientist, pretending to understand more than I do…..in hope that I will understand more at the end of this journey.
The title of the exhibition comes from a dinner I had with a very good friend: the bottle of wine we drank was called 6
Sombreros. This translates to 6 hats. I kept the cork. We spent the night at Estadio on 14th street, and shared things that grounded me and made me feel less lost. In the span of time while we ate dinner, I began thinking of the axiom that people wear many hats in their life. All the different occupations assumed just to get from one day to the next. The tenuous interactions that take place with other people during the day. We scatter and move and lose different people form our lives while we are too busy playing all these roles, yet somehow we manage to keep life moving forward without the wheels falling off.
I posted a request for muses on my Facebook page, and allowed people to choose to be a part of this exhibition of their own volition. Every muse that participated sat down with me and talked about their life with me. It was so I could take them in and give them the opportunity to become vulnerable together. From that conversation would emerge a thesis for each muse, which led to a greater understanding of the individual and served as a grounding for the portraits.
General Artist Statement:
JONNMARC works across all media, but primarily uses painting, sculpture, installation, and performance; often combining ideas from various fields. Much of his work translates easily from one form to another; the repetition and integration makes an entire context and series of connections that are characteristic of his work. He looks for the bigger picture, and the in-depth connections. The primary idea in his work is the human condition defined through experience and shared through language. Communication, symbols, and human anatomy informed by an interest neurobiology and culture are some of the other complex themes he places in his work. These themes are often hidden beneath bright color and a positive mood, depicting how many of us live our lives. The integration and exploration of his ideas, and cryptic presentation is often important to him.
Connecting with the community and reaching out to collaborate with other organizations is vital to his creative process, and he is a strong believer in art having initiative and making change. His recent collaborative work is with the dancers of the Washington Ballet, SMYAL, Washington D.C. Capital Pride, Green DMV, the DC Collaborative, The Embassy Row Hotel, The Capital Center for Psychotherapy and Wellness, and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities: Art All Night. He is constantly looking for new ways to make his work connect with others.
To see more art work and keep up with his current pieces visit: www.JONNMARC.com.