RAIN DOGS PRESENTS: RAW DOGS, CRAWLING CREEP
A Rain Dogs Art Works Gallery production, Rosalie Lagao, Curator.
Rain dogs.1045 Park St, Jacksonville, Florida 32204
FRIDAY JULY 13TH, 5PM
Eye Art by
Martin Moore
Sarah McDonald [Petunia Fist]
& an intro to Carolyn Jernigan
Martin Moore
American artist born April 29th, 1967.
“I’ve known Marty for well over a decade. He likes to experiment and invent with his art. We talk technique over the phone often, usually while I’m on speaker phone and painting at the time.
Marty is known as Luke Wurm on stage; the drummer in my band, “KEN THE MAGIC CORNER GOD.” We both incorporate punk sensibilities in our art we design and produce.
Moore has a passion and aptitude for painting tricks and techniques and infuses these methods into his style. A full-blown surrealist, he likes to delve into the strange and mad.
Moore is inventive and unafraid to experiment. His art is hip and leans to the left. There is a great deal of color and humor in Moore’s art. It does well with music related graphics and commercial design.” ~Krk Ryden
“Sarah McDonald/Petunia Fist
Bartender. Candid soul. Master (of Historic Preservation). Oh, and also, Artist. Sarah began painting under the moniker, Petunia Fist, nine years ago as a means of coping with crippling insomnia and anxiety while attending graduate school at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA. She paints from her heart sometimes, and from her brain just as often. But a bit of her soul exists in every piece she puts out. Sarah relocated to Jacksonville four years ago, and continues to use her art as a cathartic outlet , taking inspiration from things she sees in nature to express the emotional stress and tension she struggles with. Some of her favorite inspirations include rock formations, insect and plant patterns, microscopic organisms, Cnidaria and the deep sea ugly.”
“Carolyn Jernigan has lived in Jacksonville her entire life. She is graduating next semester from the University of North Florida with a Bachelor’s degree in psychology and minor in painting, drawing, and printmaking. She is quirky, energetic, positive, and provocative with a love for the dark and creepy. She overcame much abuse and grew up fast leaving her with a resilient soul.
Carolyn has been modeling for eight years now and has gone from being used as a blank canvas for other people’s art, to creating and styling her own images. Modeling never felt like enough for her though, so she then returned to painting. Even though painting had always been a hobby of hers, she had never taken it seriously until she art as a minor. She added the minor because she knew it was the best way to get her into making again. Some of her work deals with her own self-identity as a painter rather than a model, and the struggle of finding a balance between the two. Carolyn appreciates the classical technique of Vermeer. She is also inspired by contemporary figure painters John Currin and Eric Fischl. Carolyn works primarily with oil paint. Her work is almost always figuratively based, while focusing on self-portraits, and she uses retro color pallets often. Her work seems to be juxtaposed and is sometimes provocative and childlike at the same time, along with unsettling or uncomfortable.
Carolyn’s art was made during a time of rebuilding and healing. 3 years ago, she overcame an addiction to alcohol. When she paints junk food and sweets, it’s a reminder for her to be kind to herself and indulge a little, but also to be proud of her sobriety, and new developing self-confidence. She feels blessed with a great deal of encouragement and acceptance, and is no longer in a restrictive environment, like she was before. See her more current work in the next Raw Dogs art show, Honeyed Branches, where her paintings take on an even freer and darker sultry side.”
Ear Art by
DJ Ew My Goo 7-10
DJ Joey 10-2
Photography and Artist background information provided by Rain Dogs Art Works Gallery, Rosalie Lagao, Curator.