Big Beautiful Color.
Solo Exhibition
Fontanelle Gallery, Portland, Oregon. U.S.A.
February 2009
Fontanelle Gallery presents Big Beautiful Color, an exhibition featuring interactive installation, painting, and sculpture by Portland artist Mark Warren Jacques.
Mark Warren Jacques lives within a web of art makers, musicians, skateboarders, and backyard revolutionaries. This close-knit community thrives on representing a sort of whimsy that harnesses the energy of idealism and is rooted in earthy spirituality. Lest you conclude that he lives in a world of naïvete, Jacques will surprise you with his gusto to love, question, and commit himself to the realities of hard work, ambition, and responsibility to his community.
For his exhibition Big Beautiful Color, Jacques will construct an interactive large-scale teepee of cast-off slatboard set atop a colorful platform and against a backdrop of multi-hued streamers. Visitors to the exhibition will be invited to enter the teepee where atmospheric psych jams, recorded by his housemate Blake Anthony Ray Miller, will filter from tape deck to a vintage Alamo amplifier. Within these walls, there is a smooth transition between the bustle of the downtown streets and a more transcendent space where one can leave their cares behind and enter a world of inspired meditation.
In addition to the installation, fourteen new paintings and sculptures will fill the gallery space. Imagery includes prismatic symbols of nature, metaphysical acculturation, and a celebration of the spiritual universe that connects all of us – from our local collectives to a global community.
At the opening, there will be a peaceful protest enacted by distributing picket signs, hand printed locally by Keeganmeegan Press, each carrying slogans mixing Jacques’ own artistic and political ideals.
Installation View
installation view. image fontanelle
installation view detail. image tim murray
installation view interior detail. image tim murray
installation view interior detail looking up. image tim murray
installation view. image tim murray
installation view opening reception protest!. image fontanelle
installation view Blake Anthony Ray Miller playing "Music for a tee-pee" at opening reception. image fontanelle
Paintings
What happens when your close friends are graffiti bandits
Acrylic, and ink on on paper.
8" x 10" in
Stolen at the opening reception. Chant - Kill Your Television.
Not A Vision Itself But The Illustration Of A Vision
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
18 x 18
Collection of Luke Ramsey
No War Here, Peace Is My Piece
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
18 x 24
Private Collection
Big Beautiful Color for Sara Kinney, Chris Johanson, Julie Mehretu, Jim Houser etc.
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
8 x 10
Private Collection
Explode Into Colors
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
8 x 10
Private Collection
Double Conscience: Left, We Can Save It; Right, We're Fucked, Live For The Moment; Center, We're Okay
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
30 x 20
Collection of Bwana Spoons
My Dreams In The Ocean Are So Beautiful. Such Beautiful Color
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
10 x 12
Private Collection
Dinner with Aaron & Ayumi
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
8 x 8
Private Collection
Sleeping Man In An Ocean Of Unrest
Acrylic, and ink on on paper.
8" x 8" in
Private Collection
Solo Exhibition
Fontanelle Gallery, Portland, Oregon. U.S.A.
February 2009
Fontanelle Gallery presents Big Beautiful Color, an exhibition featuring interactive installation, painting, and sculpture by Portland artist Mark Warren Jacques.
Mark Warren Jacques lives within a web of art makers, musicians, skateboarders, and backyard revolutionaries. This close-knit community thrives on representing a sort of whimsy that harnesses the energy of idealism and is rooted in earthy spirituality. Lest you conclude that he lives in a world of naïvete, Jacques will surprise you with his gusto to love, question, and commit himself to the realities of hard work, ambition, and responsibility to his community.
For his exhibition Big Beautiful Color, Jacques will construct an interactive large-scale teepee of cast-off slatboard set atop a colorful platform and against a backdrop of multi-hued streamers. Visitors to the exhibition will be invited to enter the teepee where atmospheric psych jams, recorded by his housemate Blake Anthony Ray Miller, will filter from tape deck to a vintage Alamo amplifier. Within these walls, there is a smooth transition between the bustle of the downtown streets and a more transcendent space where one can leave their cares behind and enter a world of inspired meditation.
In addition to the installation, fourteen new paintings and sculptures will fill the gallery space. Imagery includes prismatic symbols of nature, metaphysical acculturation, and a celebration of the spiritual universe that connects all of us – from our local collectives to a global community.
At the opening, there will be a peaceful protest enacted by distributing picket signs, hand printed locally by Keeganmeegan Press, each carrying slogans mixing Jacques’ own artistic and political ideals.
Installation View
installation view. image fontanelle
installation view detail. image tim murray
installation view interior detail. image tim murray
installation view interior detail looking up. image tim murray
installation view. image tim murray
installation view opening reception protest!. image fontanelle
installation view Blake Anthony Ray Miller playing "Music for a tee-pee" at opening reception. image fontanelle
Paintings
What happens when your close friends are graffiti bandits
Acrylic, and ink on on paper.
8" x 10" in
Stolen at the opening reception. Chant - Kill Your Television.
Not A Vision Itself But The Illustration Of A Vision
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
18 x 18
Collection of Luke Ramsey
No War Here, Peace Is My Piece
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
18 x 24
Private Collection
Big Beautiful Color for Sara Kinney, Chris Johanson, Julie Mehretu, Jim Houser etc.
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
8 x 10
Private Collection
Explode Into Colors
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
8 x 10
Private Collection
Double Conscience: Left, We Can Save It; Right, We're Fucked, Live For The Moment; Center, We're Okay
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
30 x 20
Collection of Bwana Spoons
My Dreams In The Ocean Are So Beautiful. Such Beautiful Color
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
10 x 12
Private Collection
Dinner with Aaron & Ayumi
Acrylic & Ink on Paper
8 x 8
Private Collection
Sleeping Man In An Ocean Of Unrest
Acrylic, and ink on on paper.
8" x 8" in
Private Collection