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Artist Statement:
Painting is the obsession and
passion of my lifetime. Each
work is a new invention. A
unique visual experience to
every person who gives a work
a home or happens to glance
its way. As I come to the
completion of a painting I
sense an original spirit
infusing the composition. The
many years of my work and
study of fine art served me
well and I feel my paintings
show the result of intense
private scrutiny and
concentration. I have worked
for the past twenty-five years
without showing my work
because I devoted myself to
raising and caring for my two
sons with my wife which
resulted not so much in a
reduction in the work but in
the amount of time and money
needed to market and sell my
paintings as I had been
successful with in the years
before. This decision was the
best of my life and the
education gleaned from being
close with my family and
trying the best I could for
them was most valuable in
every way including the way I
approach painting today.
I believe seeking peace is the
highest of priorities one
should have within their life
goals. I try. ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
A collage painting by Jerry
Hanks has been selected and
will appear in a showing
called MINT GREEN which opens
at The Attic Gallery, New
Delhi, India on September 24,
2008. The show is sponsored
by The Fuchsia Tree and the
exhibition may be viewed at
thefuchsiatree.com/mintgreen
PS! ...
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Jerry Hanks Biography:
| Biographical information for Jerry Hanks can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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59
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
3
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| Religion |
Divine Evolutionist |
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| Education |
Self Taught |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
The Arts,Raising Orchids,Gardening,Politics,History,Design,Bonsai my family first always. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Mixed Media
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Contemporary Art - (Now)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Picasso
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| Favorite Work of Art |
The next one I complete which satisfies.
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
My family, my home, my world. The desire for peace, the elusive never to be achieved goal always worth working toward . |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I must have been born to paint. It was the first answer to "what do you want to be" and never changed. I believe this is common to all artists. We have no choice because we are called to the labor we love much more as instinct than choice. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
JERRY HANKS, ARTIST
Born, 1949
Lives and works in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
email contact; jmhanks@hotmail.com
EDUCATION
Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C.
Attended selected classes and lectures 1969-1973
SELECTED GROUP SHOWINGS
1967 Virginia Highlands Arts and Crafts Festival
Abingdon, Virginia
1978 Constantine Grimaldis Presents
Morris Mechanic Theater, Baltimore, MD
1980 Art Association Of Harrisburg
Harrisburg, PA
SOLO EXHIBITS
1977 CHRISTOPHER G GALLERY
Randallstown, MD
1977 COCOA LANE
Ellicott City, MD
1978 DELISIO'S
Ellicott City, MD
1980 ART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG
Harrisburg, PA
ADDITONAL SOLO EXIBITS HELD BY ARTIST AT PRIVATE RECEPTIONS EACH JUNE 3RD AND DECEMBER 3RD BEGINNING IN JUNE 1977 AND ENDING IN JUNE 1980.
PERSONAL GALLERY ONLINE AT jerryhanks.com
MINT GREEN
a group showing at
THE ATTIC GALLERY
NEW DELHI INDIA
Painting is the obsession and passion of my lifetime. Each work is a new invention. A unique visual experience to every person who gives a work a home or happens to glance its way. As I come to the completion of a painting I sense an original spirit infusing the composition. The many years of my work and study of fine art served me well and I feel my paintings show the result of intense private scrutiny and concentration. I have worked for the past twenty-five years without showing my work because I devoted myself to raising and caring for my two sons with my wife which resulted not so much in a reduction in the work but in the amount of time and money needed to market and sell my paintings as I had been successful with in the years before. This decision was the best of my life and the education gleaned from being close with my family and trying the best I could for them was most valuable in every way including the way I approach painting today.
I believe seeking peace is the highest of priorities one should have within their life goals. I try. When I think of what I would most like you the viewer to come away from a work of mine with is a sense of enjoyment and a little more peaceful than when it first attracted your attention. I also hold that a work of art should be alive and for it to stay alive a person should see or sense something original with each new viewing.
I am proud to present my works for your enjoyment and purchase consideration.
Jerry Hanks
A Few Comments
Flaking, chipping and cracking paint in my extreme low-rent childhood home revealing glimpses, portions and hints of all the layers and colors that came before mutely telling a history and causing wonder about the people who may have made the decisions to paint and the colors to use. Rain on a windowpane the droplets, drips and runs converging and dividing as they refract the light and reflect and upside-down vision of everything around providing amusement and wonder for a very bored and very poor little boy. Bark peeling from trees. All the random patterns and tinted shades of nature. These were early influences upon me. I find so much interest in the archeology of current history. And these interests were the muse for developing my techniques for collages and layered paintings. Little clues left behind as we go through our day. The composition of discarded clothing on a bedroom floor inspires me because it speaks of the history of only hours ago yet it is the past already. A part of history to be remembered or forgotten. My work is personal in inspiration but speaks for all in terms of the private worlds in which we exist.
OUTSIDER ARTIST?
I've always been challenged when someone asks the age-old question regarding what kind of work I do as an artist. To say Abstract Expressionism sounds good and could apply to some of my works. The same could be said for many of the titles attributed to certain styles of painting. I've noticed the term of Outsider Artist popping up over the past few years and I assumed it implied primitive art which I adore and some works of mine would fit into the genre. I was wrong. Through research I have found that Outsider Artist essentially means a self-educated person who for some medical or physical chronic problem found themselves separated from the middle-class life and pretty much on their own. Some of these people turn to the art that was always at the core of their spirit functioning outside the normal artistic community and, for the most part, outside the norms of middle-class.
A partial quote from the artist Jean Dubuffet states that this kind of art is produced by 'people unsmirched by artistic culture, works in which mimicry, contrary to what occurs with intellectuals, has little or no part. So that the makers draw entirely upon their own resources rather than the stereotypes of classical or fashionable art.'
Bottom line, to me, is the Outsider Artist is self-taught and works independently producing works of a highly personal nature while appealing to the public by the unique character of the work. So, I have found a tag that fits well and feels comfortable because it best describes me and my work.
I have painted since childhood and at times in my life have struck out on my own to paint. Chronic pain from a disease called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy in my arms and hands have forced me to leave my secure middle-class employment and left me on my own. I immediately turned to painting every moment and hour the pain and life will allow. Painting is now my life as I have dreamed since five years old. I just never thought it would happen this way.
Jerry Hanks
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