ARTIST STATEMENT
I'm interested in the way my body wants to move in response to my internal experience. It's especially amusing to witness paradoxes that compete on the canvas. I often find myself embodying both the awkward and the elegant, the bold and the insecure, the honest and the exaggerated. Often I need to paint how I feel before I can understand it, and my work takes on deep meaning when it leads to aha moments and transformational revelations. Whatever I feel, however I move, I want to see it in the texture, colors, and markings. The more sincere I can be as I work, the more satisfying it is to create and share.
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I apply paint spontaneously, creating wildlife, figures, landscapes and abstracts with emotive marks that bubble up spontaneously. Using brush and knife, I paint alla prima in either oil or acrylic. My gestural lines, sweeping brush strokes, and curious color combinations mimic the way I move in the world. I approach the canvas with playfulness, grace, honesty and humor, trusting the process moment by moment.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Jacquelyne Sharee Price (b. 1984, in California) was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BA in Studio Art with a painting distinction in 2007. She paints and exhibits in her own by-appointment gallery and studio in Soquel, California.
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Jacqué is represented in the Bay Area and Northern California by Piper J Gallery, in Truckee, Madsen Gallery, in Los Altos, the Brass and Oak Home show room in downtown Placerville, as well as the trade showroom Shop the Studio in Los Gatos. Jacqué was one of two owners of Mountain Arts Collective Gallery from 2021-2023, before returning to the Bay Area. Her work is available online on ArtfulHome.com, and has been featured in Artists Magazine, Style Magazine, and in collaborative ventures with BLICK art materials. Jacqué currently accepts limited commissions from the public, licenses work to interior designers for private projects, and works on both residential and corporate projects in partnership with Interior Designers throughout the US.
