![]() So, in a way, my earlier work dovetails into my current work creating a multi-year build up. I find it’s important to let certain pieces ferment. Collages and drawings hang about the studio, sometimes to be added later to another piece sometimes months sometimes years later. “I’m an additive artist not a reductive one. The disparate parts become building blocks towards the synthesis of a dynamic new whole. Drawings from five years ago, pieces of old unstretched paintings, inspiration from his son’s drawings - everything is fodder for the process. ![]() ![]() Beginning with abstract and geometric underpaintings, Jefferson then arranges cut pieces of painted canvas in layered, patterned constructions. Boundaries are eaten and advanced as Jefferson bends towards and away from a personal vernacular while trying to refine and innovate his paintings. For this exhibition, Upon A Slitted Sheet I Sit, paintings and collages in the artist’s studio get cannibalized and reworked. Jefferson's vibrant paintings and works on paper balance a line between figuration and abstraction, material experimentation and visual simplicity.
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