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Artist Exhibitions:
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
"Works of Faith", Portland OR
2006
"Golden Eyes: Experiments in
Gold Leaf", Pacific Gallery,
CT 2006
Park City Arts Festival, Park
City UT, August 2004
Portland Arts Festival,
Portland OR, June 2004
Juried Selection: Associated
Arts of Ocean Shores, Annual
Fine Art Show, WA March 2004
Juried selection: ...
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Artist Galleries:
Pacific Gallery, New London CT
2006
Chablis Gallery, Placerville
CA 2002-03
Starlight Dreaming Gallery,
Minneapolis MN 2001...
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Artist Reviews:
PARK SLOPE ARTIST BOUND FOR
TUSCANY HILLS
Park Slope Courier Jan 17,
2005
Park Slope Artist Josse Ford
has been selected by an
international jury to
participate in the 2005
Niennale in Florence Italy
which will take place in
December 2005. The Florence
Biennale, now in its 5th
generation, is ...
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Collections:
Private & Corporate
Collections throughout North
America including:
LaSalle Bank Corporate
Collection, Pitsburgh, PA
Moylan Collection, Brooklyn,
NY
Somers Collection, Brooklyn,
NY
Listiak Collection, Naples, FL
Keck Collection, Brooklyn, NY
Wallace Collection, North Bay,
California
Rokovitz & Samelson
Collection, Big Island, Hawaii
Hansen Collection,
Minneapolis, MN
Grambsch & McKenzie
Collection, Minneapolis, MN
Lamoreux ...
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Artist Statement for Josse Ford
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My purpose as an artist is to create art illuminates the beauty and perfection of nature.
I love nature - its a great inspiration for me because its there that I feel I can touch what is divine in our own nature, what is divine in life, and I hope that a little bit of that goes into my paintings.
I paint with soft pastels because they have very vibrant colors and are immediate. I work very quickly – I finish a painting in a couple of sessions because I’m trying to capture the light – in the tradition of the impressionists.
I like to paint places that I feel haunted by – it could be national park or a windswept bay in a remote part of Hawaii. When I paint, I’m trying to capture the way the light works, and the movement of energy – the stillness and the wildness and all of the in-between experiences that nature contains.
I’ve always loved color and so you will see a lot of it in my paintings. One of my favorite places to paint is the island of Maui because it has such strong colors. When you look at the ocean there its not just blue - it has deep purple and light purple along the surface, and the colors change during the day. It’s an otherworldly feeling – like you’re watching a saturated video of real life.
As I paint, I first of all make a decision about the composition and the framing and then I set down my base colors – I look for the darkest dark and the lightest light and where I want the viewer’s attention to be. After I’ve made those decisions, I start laying in the foundation colors as solid blocks. I often work with complimentary color - the underlying hints of color that you see when you look at something – light and color revealing form.
My major influences are the French impressionists and post-impressionists who made huge innovations in color and light that have influenced us ever since. I am very excited by those periods in time when a group of people came together and through their interaction brought in something new – some new way of seeing, some new way of understanding our connection to life.
I’m also inspired by paintings that capture a whole world or experience – so that someone can look at your work and though they may never have been to that place, they get a sense of being there. People who’ve never been to Maui, or never been to Santa Fe, or never been to the Great Ocean Road in Australia can have that feeling just by looking at one of my paintings.
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