Hum
- oil on paper
- 22 x 22 in
- James Bockelman
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Not For Sale
This piece is located in the UNK Discovery Hall.
James Bockelman holds a MFA from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He currently lives in Seward, NE, where he is the Director and Curator for the Marxhausen Gallery of Art at Concordia University and works as an artist.
Artist statement:
These paintings are based on a number of references and visual resources that on some important level, are already abstracted. These include an assortment experiences and visual impressions, as well as architectural plans, charts of sound waves, color spectrums and old world maps. I do not work from a sketchbook because I find that the painting loses a sense of immediacy in translation. I work directly on paper, and the image is a by–product of an additive and subtractive process of layering, erasing, building up, and then editing back down. As a result, many of the paintings contain areas that seem incongruent or even unfinished, as if the previous image has faded from view. I appreciate the history of older layers in dialogue with newer passages of paint; for me, the paintings are like an evolving visual, vocabulary. And, though few of the paintings follow any overt theme or formula, they ultimately travel through the process of painting until they accumulate their own identity; these paintings move beyond their initial reference and become a work that I recognize as my own.
- Subject Matter: abstract
- Inventory Number: 30I.728.2020
- Current Location: University of Nebraska Kearney - Discovery Hall - 2504 9th Ave Kearney , NE 68849 (google map)
- Collections: University of Nebraska Kearney