Sunday, August 05, 2007
Jake Gillespie
This is Jake Gillespie standing in front of one of his canvases. Jake is a friend here in Lincoln who is also a really great artist. He has had shows in Kansas City, Omaha, Chicago and Lincoln.
Below I've posted a few examples of Jake's work from 2003-2007. Recently, he has been doing video and animation work, in addition to painting. Jake is one of the co-founders of "Tugboat Gallery" in Lincoln, which focuses on younger and emerging artists.
These canvases, done at the beginning of this period, are much more abstract than Jake's later work:
A lot of Jake's work comments on or references popular culture and mass media...
This is a drawing from one of Jake's animated shorts...
Here is a more recent painting, "Alphabet 2, torture and interrogation"...
This one hangs on my wall...
For more information and many more examples of Jake's work, go here...
Jake Gillespie website
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Always been a big fan of this one. Partially because I like the name Bruce. Partially because I like beards.
ReplyDeleteYo, Justin! So, then, you must also l-o-v-e "The Hulk vs. The Boss," too? Two Bruces for the price of one in that piece, and at least one of them has a beard. Come to think of it... you love guys named "Bruce" and have a thing for beards... you know, you might have made a good gay man in the 1970s!
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing some of these up at a gallery on 9th, way back in the day.
ReplyDeleteGenius.