The Small Pop Up Gallery Presents Jesse Whittle.

 

Jesse Whittle

The Small Pop Up Gallery is proud to present the work of Tulsa Oklahoma artist Jesse Whittle. The Small Pop Up Gallery featuring Jesse Whittle’s work can be viewed at the offices of the PEI Council of the Arts at 115 Richmond Street, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

JESSE WHITTLE is a Tulsa resident. He received his B.A. from St. Gregory’s University in Studio Art. He has won several awards, including a purchase award at the Young New Collectable Artist show at the JRB art at the Elms gallery. Previously Jesse has taught art at Gilcrease Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art as well as 6 th , 7 th and 8 th grade at Mannford Middle School. Jesse has exhibited at a number of group and individual shows around the state, particularly in Tulsa and Oklahoma City.

ARTIST STATEMENT My art practice is drawing and painting. In my work I create compositions that emphasize interrupted and implied forms. These forms are the result of editing. With each layer of paint I overlap or conceal, the painted surface is built up into uneven fragments. What’s left behind constitutes anxiety, apprehension and shame. I utilize multiple mediums including acrylic, watercolor, Chinese ink and spray paint. Recently, I have become interested in creating tension between approach and meaning. I aim to scrutinize my own sincerity, happiness and self-esteem in order to establish and distort my system of creation. The contradictions in my work reinforce issues of trust and self-loathing.

The Small Pop Up Gallery is a roving curatorial project in the City of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada that utilizes borrowed and found spaces to present contemporary artwork.

 

The Small Pop Up Gallery Presents David T Miller!

David T Miller

The Small Pop Up Gallery is proud to present the work of Ambler, Pennsylvania artist David T Miller. The Small Pop Up Gallery featuring David’s work can be found at The Bookman, the coolest used bookstore in Eastern Canada. The Bookman is located at 177 Queen Street, Charlottetown PEI, Canada

David T Miller 4×5 inches on canvas

Artist Reflection

“My current work is not about anything. It is simply a call and response practice of placing marks and color on a surface. I essentially collaborate with myself. I begin a number of pieces and set them aside to dry. l pick one up and add some sort of embellishment and put it back down. I pick up another and do the same thing until I get to a point where I don’t feel compelled to add further embellishment. Eventually the whole group reaches a state of “completion” in my mind. I tend to view the groups as representing a month’s work of activity.”

 

David T Miller 4×5 inches on canvas

“I enjoy looking at the groupings after they have been made trying to learn more about myself, my process and my practice. I’m often surprised by the habits and characteristics I see. I never intended to make so many dots and don’t think of myself as painting dots when I’m doing them. Dots, stripes, triangles, circles, saw teeth and edges are not things I intended to use and they are not things I think about as I paint, but they have become integral to my current vocabulary. I recently noticed the Oaxacan wood carvings I have in my house that I take for granted and realized the apparent influence I had overlooked.”

 

David T Miller 4×5 inches on canvas

“The grid display is another accidental, but characteristic I’ve observed. That is how I arrange things that I am working on and that is how things are displayed on the gallery page of my website. In 2012 I participated in the All Together Now collaboration exhibit in Bushwick organized and curated by Julie Torres. I spread my work out on the floor of the gallery in the same grid relationship I had originally organized at home. Julie didn’t edit or change a thing. She wanted the same grid on the wall. At the time I wasn’t cognizant of what was going on in my own practice. Julie inadvertently helped me learn something about myself.

The same can be said about the collaboration idea. When I participated in the group collaboration process in Bushwick I realized my personal process was identical to that outlined by Julie for the group.”

David T Miller 4×5 inches on canvas

Other material relating to David T Miller.

Artist Blog: David T Miller’s Musing