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...you're looking at art by Jacey Singleton
Jacey Singleton is a painter straddling the border of Georgia and Alabama. Jacey grew up drawing and painting as a young child, and she never put down the pencils and brushes. Studying art education at the University of West GA, she discovered a love for the human connection that came with teaching, and in her studio practice, developed a fascination with the mundanities of daily life. Jacey uses painting to study the world around her, documenting the fleeting moments of her everyday.
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Statement:
Painting, to me, is about observing. I watch the world around me, internalize it, digest it, and spit back out an image. It’s my way of paying attention. I like to think of each of us as a capsule of the images that flash by us in a lifetime. I capture these images—the images of my life—in these paintings. I began my journey oil painting with portraiture because people fascinate me on a primal level. In a way, still, all I make are portraits. Maybe they don’t all have a face, but they show a piece of a human life. The subjects I paint, I paint because of what they say about people, the people around me, the people in my world—family, lovers, strangers. And inevitably, by proxy, I capture the contents of myself and my own life—my connection to these people, these objects, these places—whether fleeting or eternal. These paintings are nothing more than moments filtered through my point of view. It’s easy to blind ourselves to the images passing by us day by day. It’s easy to downplay their inherent importance. But if we study them, spend time with them, replay them in our minds, on paper, on canvas, with clay, we can carry our moments, hold on to some semblance of them—a painting, a poem, a photograph, a memory. As we move through our lives, we come to understand its bittersweet nature: sometimes it's painful, a drag; other times maybe it's not so bad; and sometimes, well, it’s actually kind of nice. All of these happenings, filtered through our perspective, carry the foundations of what makes our lives our own—our pain as important as our bliss. So I pay attention. And I paint.
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