30 July, 2009
Artist: JMJ Studios, NY
Title: Joy
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Available: Etsy.com
Appeal:
Painting is such a visual medium but art is one step removed from what we percieve it to be. What do I mean? Art should be interactive but visual art, particularly painting, has only one means of interaction. We may look but we may never touch. I believe the touchability of art decreases in direct proportion to it's price or percieved value. No one would walk up and touch the Mona Lisa but we would tear the same picture from a magazine without a second thought if we needed to. We probably wouldn't mind touching the same image on a TV screen but are less likely to touch it on a laptop, as the screens are so sensitive and expensive to replace. Have you ever touched a painting in a museum? Not likely, and if you did you are probably still praying to the art Saints for forgiveness.
Artist JMJ surely recognizes that but has an unusual dillema. One of her three children is blind. How does a painter share their passion with someone who is completely removed from visual arts? JMJ takes a daring approach and tosses off convention by creating a painting that not only can be touched, can be understood if one can read braille. Her impasto technique creates noticably raised dots that spell out the word 'joy'. Her abstract composition is a pleasing, colorful balance that brings joy to my eyes as well.
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