Jakub Jasinski -watercolors
Jakub Jasinski is a professor of mathematics at the University of Scranton with life-long passion for art. His photography received awards from National Geographic and United Nations.
More recently, after trying acrylics and pastels, watercolors became his medium of choice. “Water and pigment move on paper in ways mimicking the natural processes in the Great Outdoors. Overlapping transparent layers of watercolor paint can build rich, complex hues echoing the way light filters through the layers of atmosphere, through tree crowns or flower petals or how it reflects in bodies of water. “Jasinski says.
Jakub’s style includes elements of realism and expressionism dependent on the subject. “I need to be emotionally involved with the subject. I love nature which can be visually delightful but also chaotic and turbulent. I also love mainstream jazz. Those paintings call for a more expressionistic presentation.”
Artist statement (about the show):
Works presented here were painted within the last 3 years. The subject includes African animals, Northeastern woodlands, jazz trumpeters and many other – whatever gets my interest at a particular time. I pick the style to best capture not just the appearance, but how does the subject feel to me. For example, you will find simplified, peacefully realistic landscapes next to expressionistic portraits of jazz musicians.
Shane McGeehan-Digital Photography
Sunset + Moonrise
Biography
Shane McGeehan is an artist from Waverly, Pennsylvania, with a history of exhibitions across the East Coast, including solo shows, performances, and installations. He holds an MFA from the Ohio State University and a BFA from Syracuse University. His work, driven by experimentation and play, wanders along the edges of photography, digital media, and immersive art. Although the camera is his main tool, Shane is always questioning what photography is, how it can be redefined, and where it fits into the art world today.
Artist’s Statement
“Sunset + Moonrise” is a grouping of two large-scale digitally altered photographic pieces. My work explores themes of natural phenomena, the passage of time, perception, and personal experience, while also questioning what photography is and can become. The camera, historically a tool for documentation, is here combined with simple digital manipulations in order to shift the medium into something new and unexpected.
“Sunset” is a digital photograph taken with a Fujifilm X-T2, where I split the scene in half with pixels stretched horizontally for nearly nine feet of space. This piece blurs the lines between photography and color field painting, representation and abstraction. The immense scale of the work further exaggerates this ambiguity and pushes the piece beyond a typical frame on the wall and into more of an experiential moment. “Moonrise” is a digital photograph taken on a Canon G5 X Mark II. I repeated selections of the moon across the frame in a rhythmic wave. This simple duplication technique visually mirrors both the ocean waves below as well as the passage of time. As a large-scale print that is displayed in a long narrow hallway, it also mimics the up-and-down movements of passersby as they walk through the small space
