Nov. 2024- Nov 2025 The Orlando Airport Gallery, Terminal B as a part of the Fusion Festival. Historic 5th Avenue , 7 ft x 5 ft, oil on canvas, 2014 - Nov. 2024-Nov. 2025 The UF Innovation Center, second floor Shark Valley, 48” x 48”. Oil on Canvas, Permanent Display - The UF Reitz Union. The student center is on the bottom floor on the east side. The Shoosty The Catalog Raisonné www.shoosty. com Follow the web links to see the free online flip books. Tell us about your creative process. How did you generate the initial ideas for this particular col- lection? If you paint long enough, eventually, you will find yourself. It took me thousands of hours to learn that my paintings are about painting. My subject is the painting itself. When you internalize this, you will have the greatest sense of Freedom. I begin by finding a bug that interests me. I then choose a pattern from my personal library patterns. The idea is to tell a story by making a theme. To come up with ideas, I study a lot of art. The Internet makes it easy. It also helped that I run a few Face- book groups about art with over 30K members be- tween them: Art Nouveau and Art Deco, Art Brut, I combine silk, one of the world’s oldest materials, with the most advanced techniques to design and print. The result is cutting-edge. While working, I need to consider the inks, fabric, printers, and packaging. I pay special attention to duplex print- ing. The silk is printed on both sides at the same time. Each piece of fabric requires two identical drawings except for a color shift. and Japanese Woodblock Printing. What design challenges do you face?
What do you want guests to take away from Shoosty Bugs: An Art Infestation? My show centers around a deep exploration of ar- tistic discovery. It highlights the power of patterns and the boundlessness of human imagination. I hope my work leaves people spellbound, eyes wide open, full of imagination. I want them to imagine my patterns on everything from cereal boxes to clothing, car wraps, and giant murals. I want to fill the world with beauty and color that heals our bod- ies and souls. If there is a question I didn’t ask that you want to answer, go for it. We aim for magazines to hit mailboxes the week of your opening. What is it about Fine Art that has kept you en- gaged all of these years? For me, studying art is one of the only skills I can do by myself. It allows me to work at my pace, which is very fast, yet the act of painting itself is like med- itation, slowing me down. I can easily see working on my art for my entire life, always discovering new things. End Jenni Craig Interview.
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