Jeffrey Bishop
Artist Statement:
I work on multiple bodies of work that don’t cohere to a single signature style. I have a multi-faceted studio practice wherein ideas and references float freely in play on walls and floors.
I like the mix of multiple practices that may seem visually distinct, even incongruous, and I move fluidly between different bodies of work. Things collude and collide. I take ideas from one image to another; if stalled out in one area, I pick up energy elsewhere.
Abstraction is ultimately a subjective practice, an autonomous language, and I resist ascribing exogenous narratives to the work. I never know which way a painting or drawing is going to go. They are not about anything in particular, they remain mute even when noisy, the less overt meaning the better. The viewer is granted greater freedom this way. And it more accurately reflects the circumstances of their making.
Artist Biography:
Jeffrey Bishop was born in Berkeley , CA. He grew up in multiple countries speaking a number of different languages. He went to art school at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, receiving a BFA from Tufts University in 1973. He won the prestigious James William Paige Traveling fellowship in 1974. He received his MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle WA in 1977 where he studied with Jacob Lawrence among others. In 1981 he interviewed Susan Sontag for the Henry Gallery (University of Washington). He had a solo show at the Seattle Art Museum in 1982. He taught for many years at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle before moving to NYC in 1993. He has exhibited Nationally and Internationally throughout his career. He lives in Ft Greene, Brooklyn. He is involved with arts organizations Bang on a Can and ICI (Independent Curators International).
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Member Since: 2018
