Jordana Rae Gassner
Regensburg
b. 1976 (USA) Oil Painter / Bachelor of Arts / American artist residing in Germany / Contemporary Abstract Expressionism
MessageJordana Rae Gassner was born in the year of the dragon, 1976, in the Black Hills, USA and resides in Regensburg, Germany. As an oil painter working mainly on canvas and paper, she creates art of metaphysical realism. Upon layers of gesso, thin glazes and thick, blotchy, succulent paint, the manual articulation of her own abstract thought are made manifest.
Oftentimes, anything that happens to fall upon the work throughout this process is incorporated into the whole, giving voice to the sensibility of the inclusion of chance. Her fascination is with the sublime and eternal in human experience not separate from science. So oftentimes, geometrical or physical forms will be included alongside washes of homogenous color space as a metaphor for the unfathomable or mystical.
Text and landscape elements intermingle to form old worlds of the moment and the future; logic and language, intuition and nature. Wrinkling, blistering, crackling and fogging techniques are intended to show a natural acceptance of all things being beautiful in the eyes of whom it was created. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in 1999 studying Psychology, Literature, Philosophy and Mythology in USA, Mexico and Norway.
Statement
Exploring mysticism, mythology, science fiction, folk lore and fantasy as pathways to truth and anchoring in concepts wildly indescribable to modern perceptions, making them visible without use of strong figure is what brings one to the core of my work. Using paintings as a freedom of expression and exploration of being-ness where the mainstream continues to prosecute and maim its freethinkers and exploration-ists. It is my sharing with the world a question of "what if"? and "why not"? and still desiring to maintain an equillibrium of: do no intentional harm, sovereignty to the individual and unconditional love for all, that makes my work desirable.
"Change the Discussion"
Jordana Rae Gassner / Gaßner
*profile foto by Andreas Fuchs
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