Solo Exhibition



Perihelion Arts

Welcomes the return of artist Jesse Peper with an exicting new
exhibition of work Opening Reception with Artist:6-11 p.m.
November 6, 2009 Third Friday Reception6-10 p.m. Nov. 20, 2009
Part of Artlink's First Fridays monthly art walk More than twenty
new pieces of work showcase how Jesse Peper's alluring palette
and unique use of symbolism blend with images to blur the lines
between beautiful and hideous and the real and surreal.
Each provocative piece is its own universe of mystery and wonder.
Show runs through November 29, 2009

About Jesse:

I was born 1975 in Tucson, AZ surrounded by the thorny open desert landscapes such as Mission architecture, Spanish saints, cactus, agave plants, snakes, scorpions and the hot sun. I have found the source of my interest in art there among the buzzing cicada and smell of creosote. I grew up with 3 sisters and 1 brother, My mother was a clown and a musician while my father developed his interest in Physics and even worked for NASA before he died. I have attended art classes at every opportunity from the earliest of my school years through College. Although I do very much enjoy doing intaglio print-making, sculpture, figure drawing, watercolor and metal-smithing I am most acquainted with acrylic on masonite which is most of what I work with lately. I have also spent a good many years working with several music projects for both live performances and recorded sessions, most enduringly with Not Breathing.
I am currently a Denver resident; I paint with an almost singular focus these days and also work full time to support my growing obsessions. I try to keep up with my imagination and ideas as well as develop my ability to rend them during the same process, hoping to create a momentum of improvement between the intent and the execution of form. Quite often, more recently, I have been segmenting my ideas by theme. I might, for example, get one idea that takes root and just focus imagery and relative manifestations around it until there is enough resolve and dynamic to move on to the next.
I encourage the freedom of personal interpretation but some of my influences come from surrealism, the Tarot, various literature of interest, anthropomorphic or totemic cultural creations of many kinds, archaic or current systems of belief and blasphemy, Renaissance, European classical iconic motif's & alchemical processes. Also, the balance of the beautiful and the grotesque, attraction and repulsion, use of symbolism organic or man-made, cycles and the transient nature of reality.