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“Bless You, Bless You Very Much” Jules Anslow
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Biography
Jules
left her home state of Ohio to come to the Northwest in 1985. She began
working for established ceramic jewelry artists here before developing and
selling her own jewelry and pottery. Her sculptural pop-cartoon painting
style in acrylic on wood has evolved steadily over the last twenty years,
born from the possibilities she found in slab-rolled clay. From multi-level cutout paintings to
three-dimensional murals, Jules uses every opportunity to combine 2D and 3D
for a larger-than-life effect.
She created two of the pigs for Pike Place Market’s
“Pigs on Parade 2007”.
Jules also
currently curates, promotes and teaches for the studio/gallery she
co-founded in 2006, Lowell Art Works in Everett, and serves as its
president.
Influences: Joan Miro, Renee Magritte, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marcel
Duchamp, Man Ray, Paul Klee, Alexander Calder, Antoni Gaudi, Salvador Dali,
Hans Arp, Ray and Charles Eames, Ben Anslow, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes
Oldenburg, Tawnie Anslow-Follis, Albert Einstein, Karl Popper, Sandra J.
Anslow, Toastmaster, Sunbeam, Ty Follis, Paul Rubens, Art Clokey, Edgar
Degas, Nikki de Saint-Phalle, Jane Goodall, Pearl Jam, Henri Matisse, David
Byrne, Wassily Kandinsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst,
surrealists, dadaists, outsiders.
In addition to painting, illustration and murals, Jules is currently enjoying
experimenting with furniture design/construction and silversmithing.
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Statement
My painting style could be described as neo-Dada surreal pop cartoon. I enjoy creating pieces that inhabit
the space several doors past mildly absurd, that invite the viewer to
temporarily abandon decorum and expectation. I find the freedom I crave in this
approach to say anything and everything, or nothing at all loudly, often
within the same piece. I work
primarily in acrylic on wood I cut out with jigsaw, to make paintings,
mural components and furniture.
I also work on canvas and paper. (I do adore the Space Needle, though
I also enjoy placing it in ridiculous artistic peril.)
Art
for me is an extension of my arms and legs. A juxtaposition of objects or an
unusual shape is what usually starts my wheels turning. I tend to be initially inspired by
the visual, shape and color; meanings usually surface to me later, but
occasionally the reverse happens.
I'm drawn to curving lines, bright colors, sparkly, shiny things
which I collect and hoard in my nest...
I
dream about paint; my sketchbook sleeps beside the bed. Often I find inspiration in the
tools themselves; jigsaw,
sanders, brushes, airbrush, and hand tools. I love when a piece is about
two-thirds done, as it turns that corner from materials to art.
One of
my favorite pictures is of Alexander Calder in his cluttered studio,
surrounded by bits and pieces of things, raw materials oozing with ideas. What really makes me giddy is to
find out that something I've done has planted a seed, inspired someone else
to explore a new direction or lit a spark in their imagination. That's what art is about, to me;
exponential possibilities.
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