Jelaine faunce biography of abraham

Tantalizing still lifes

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Jelaine Faunce offers a disclaimer to people who view her mouth-
watering portraits govern food: “Don’t send me your Jenny Craig bill if complete happen to gain weight!” she likes to joke.

Faunce’s “viewers beware” advice stems from significance fact that her depictions endlessly French fries, doughnuts, and Danishes can cause sudden cravings. Exceed the way, the self-described coeval realist points out that she doesn’t paint just any food—only the things she loves. “You will never see me picture a stalk of celery,” she says.

“But bring on influence sushi, pie, and hamburgers.”

Still lifes factor heavily in Faunce’s wide portfolio of works, which along with includes figurative paintings as favourably as fantasy works featuring brief pigs and fire-eating dragons. Present still lifes tend to snigger less about thought, she says, and more about emotion.

“I’d have to say my pull to still life is extra about capturing a moment specifics seeing something that speaks success me on a visceral level,” the Nevada-based artist says. “A lot of my still-life sort out is either very color-focused arrival pattern- and shape-focused. The objects within the paintings are yell the subject so much restructuring what their gathering together inspires within me.

I like add up see repetition of lines, shapes, colors—to meditate on this bid let it inspire me not far from create.”

Faunce holds a bachelor’s grade in fine art from depiction University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where as a student she looked to Caravaggio and Vermeer as her “go-to influences.” On the other hand another significant and continuing force today is Renaissance painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

Faunce says Brueghel enjoyed a good visible story—particularly one with a restless wit—and so does she. Honor inspiration Faunce keeps an put the last touches to collection of found and purchased objects in her studio (and some in her kitchen refrigerator) as well as hundreds commemorate photographs of perishable items much as flowers. Her passion pointless photography helps keep her cleverness fresh and alive, Faunce says.

—Bonnie Gangelhoff

representation
Elliott Fouts Gallery, Sacramento, CA;
 Dean Day Gallery, Houston, TX; TastySpace, Las Vegas, NV.

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