Clifford Jean-Felix
Beyond Borders: Exhibition of Fine Art from Canada
January 2 - January 23, 2007
Reception:
Thursday January 4, 2007 6-8 PM
Press Release
For Haitian born artist, Clifford Jean-Felix, painting is a spiritual journey, a revelatory path of sunset colors and candle-lit dreamscapes. A relative of the famous Neo-Expressionist Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jean-Felix effortlessly transcends everyday reality, stating that art is "the materialization of a dreamed world, where human beings become light." Emphasizing vivid overall effects rather than details, Jean-Felix arbitrarily layers complimentary colors to create dramatic backdrops of incredible texture and variation. Giving texture primacy over line, rough surfaces suggest transient light effects, which serve to enhance the luminous character of Jean-Felix's work. At the heart of these paintings is a reverence for human authenticity, a desire to reunite the viewer with his or her truest Self. Entirely devoid of gender specific features, ethnic distinctions, or other identifying physical attributes, Jean-Felix represents the human form purged of all artifice, ornament, individuality and persona. Distilling the basic polarities and idiosyncratic manifestations of human experience into that which is more general and universal, Jean-Felix's stylized figures are totemic embodiments of eternal love and timeless wisdom.
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