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Kara, I lived a few blocks away from one of the largest collections of Matisse in the free world for about five years and studied him almost daily. What a master of the elegant line. If ever in Baltimore Maryland USA anyone be sure to visit the Ba...

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mrs. matisse and jerry???.....but original and modern

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Jerry Hanks commented on kara cardinale's group 'The Artist's Diary'

I have used UPS for shipping all over the world and never had the slightest problem.

June 5

Jerry Hanks commented on Candice Howard's photo 'The Yellow Curtain'

A grand study of color. Admire your balance. Jerry Hanks

May 29

Jerry Hanks replied to Robert Anderson's discussion 'Have a Banana' in the group The Artist's Diary

Good thought but would you have to do something creative with that thing before you ship it off? Sometimes art is just fart misspelled but often smelling the same. That could be considered an artistic expression of some kind. Jerry Hanks

May 3

Jerry Hanks commented on Philip Letts's photo 'Metal Scratch'

It's exciting to see an artist who is always reaching, stretching, wading deeper into the stream of creativity without fear. Jerry Hanks

May 3

Jerry Hanks commented on Philip Letts's photo 'Marcelle Gallery Solo Exhibition'

Thanks for the installation view. It gave me a better image of how powerful these works are and how much they impact me much as seeing Rothko works in such settings which I have had the honor of viewing several times. They seem spiritual each own ...

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About Me:

I am a recluse who loves people but have learned to fear the evil behind so many smiling faces. I seek peace for my personal world with hope of the desire spreading by example of work and life. My world is centered upon my family and I am inspired daily by the good they do. This life has been many extreme lifetimes in one which provided an education that could not be matched.

About My Art:

JERRY HANKS, ARTIST

Born, 1949

Lives and works in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

email contact; jmhanks@hotmail.com

EDUCATION
Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C.
Attended selected classes and lectures 1969-1973

SELECTED GROUP SHOWINGS

1967 Virginia Highlands Arts and Crafts Festival

Abingdon, Virginia

1978 Constantine Grimaldis Presents

Morris Mechanic Theater, Baltimore, MD

1980 Art Association Of Harrisburg
Harrisburg, PA

SOLO EXHIBITS

1977 CHRISTOPHER G GALLERY

Randallstown, MD

1977 COCOA LANE
Ellicott City, MD

1978 DELISIO'S
Ellicott City, MD

1980 ART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG

Harrisburg, PA

ADDITONAL SOLO EXIBITS HELD BY ARTIST AT PRIVATE RECEPTIONS EACH JUNE 3RD AND DECEMBER 3RD BEGINNING IN JUNE 1977 AND ENDING IN JUNE 1980.

PERSONAL GALLERY ONLINE AT jerryhanks.com

MINT GREEN
a group showing at
THE ATTIC GALLERY
NEW DELHI INDIA

Painting is the obsession and passion of my lifetime. Each work is a new invention. A unique visual experience to every person who gives a work a home or happens to glance its way. As I come to the completion of a painting I sense an original spirit infusing the composition. The many years of my work and study of fine art served me well and I feel my paintings show the result of intense private scrutiny and concentration. I have worked for the past twenty-five years without showing my work because I devoted myself to raising and caring for my two sons with my wife which resulted not so much in a reduction in the work but in the amount of time and money needed to market and sell my paintings as I had been successful with in the years before. This decision was the best of my life and the education gleaned from being close with my family and trying the best I could for them was most valuable in every way including the way I approach painting today.

I believe seeking peace is the highest of priorities one should have within their life goals. I try. When I think of what I would most like you the viewer to come away from a work of mine with is a sense of enjoyment and a little more peaceful than when it first attracted your attention. I also hold that a work of art should be alive and for it to stay alive a person should see or sense something original with each new viewing.

I am proud to present my works for your enjoyment and purchase consideration.
Jerry Hanks

A Few Comments

Flaking, chipping and cracking paint in my extreme low-rent childhood home revealing glimpses, portions and hints of all the layers and colors that came before mutely telling a history and causing wonder about the people who may have made the decisions to paint and the colors to use. Rain on a windowpane the droplets, drips and runs converging and dividing as they refract the light and reflect and upside-down vision of everything around providing amusement and wonder for a very bored and very poor little boy. Bark peeling from trees. All the random patterns and tinted shades of nature. These were early influences upon me. I find so much interest in the archeology of current history. And these interests were the muse for developing my techniques for collages and layered paintings. Little clues left behind as we go through our day. The composition of discarded clothing on a bedroom floor inspires me because it speaks of the history of only hours ago yet it is the past already. A part of history to be remembered or forgotten. My work is personal in inspiration but speaks for all in terms of the private worlds in which we exist.

OUTSIDER ARTIST?

I've always been challenged when someone asks the age-old question regarding what kind of work I do as an artist. To say Abstract Expressionism sounds good and could apply to some of my works. The same could be said for many of the titles attributed to certain styles of painting. I've noticed the term of Outsider Artist popping up over the past few years and I assumed it implied primitive art which I adore and some works of mine would fit into the genre. I was wrong. Through research I have found that Outsider Artist essentially means a self-educated person who for some medical or physical chronic problem found themselves separated from the middle-class life and pretty much on their own. Some of these people turn to the art that was always at the core of their spirit functioning outside the normal artistic community and, for the most part, outside the norms of middle-class.

A partial quote from the artist Jean Dubuffet states that this kind of art is produced by 'people unsmirched by artistic culture, works in which mimicry, contrary to what occurs with intellectuals, has little or no part. So that the makers draw entirely upon their own resources rather than the stereotypes of classical or fashionable art.'

Bottom line, to me, is the Outsider Artist is self-taught and works independently producing works of a highly personal nature while appealing to the public by the unique character of the work. So, I have found a tag that fits well and feels comfortable because it best describes me and my work.

I have painted since childhood and at times in my life have struck out on my own to paint. Chronic pain from a disease called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy in my arms and hands have forced me to leave my secure middle-class employment and left me on my own. I immediately turned to painting every moment and hour the pain and life will allow. Painting is now my life as I have dreamed since five years old. I just never thought it would happen this way.

Jerry Hanks

I must have been born to paint. It was the first answer to "what do you want to be" and never changed. I believe this is common to all artists. We have no choice because we are called to the labor we love much more as instinct than choice.

Favorite Music:

Any exceptional music that gives me something new each time I listen.

Favorite Films:

Feel Goods.

Favorite Artists:

Not enough room or time to list.

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OLIVIA IN STUDIO 2-09

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OLIVIA IN GARDEN 10-31-08

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At 8:31am on September 3, 2009, kara cardinale said…: hi jerry how have you been

At 7:54am on July 27, 2009, kara cardinale said…: just email it to buncutgallery@gmail.com included with the title, artist, media, size, year and include a short artist bio. Oh and price we price in pounds sterling we change the dollar price at a rate of 1.6

At 3:10pm on July 21, 2009, kara cardinale said…: jerry , why not put some pieces in the gallery. your work is so interesting we'd love to have it.

At 8:18am on April 18, 2009, MCJ said…: Yes, taste is very personal Jerry. You taste has permitted to see and explore in a new way. Thank you. MC

At 3:32pm on April 17, 2009, MCJ said…: Thank you for your supportive comment Jerry. I actually am not crazy about that piece. Perhaps I should meditate on it for a while...

At 3:13pm on April 7, 2009, CLAUDIE BASTIDE said…: Thank you Jerry for giving so much of your time commenting my works.
The one called"écriture cosmique" is made of various elements like sand,earth,oil bar (for the writing),glue,and wax...and pigments of course.

At 9:19pm on April 6, 2009, Bruce C said…: Jerry...thanks everso fror reaching out..as an artist i started as a painter... originally in art school ...Kent State Univ. in '63, I truly appreciate the amazing amounts of work and dedication to crank out the pieces, like the ones you show here...well done! In the mid sixties i switched from paint to camera...and never looked back...although i still draw a lot...drawing is the "queen" of the arts. In the 70's and 80's i painted with photography in the darkroom....and in the 90's with the advent of digital my computer has become my most major darkroom. I love the "process" in your work....to the artist, after all is said and done....ART is THE PROCESS of CREATING, LEARNING, and DOING! Our paintings, drawings, photos, poems, pieces of literature are just the by-product of the artist's only purpose.....BEING IN THE PROCESS...the PROCESS OF CREATING ART....having read your background and statement of goals for art, i think we are on the same page....and for us the process never ends.....it changes its form and intensity from time to time...but never ends..... My best to you and all those in your life...always b

At 8:01pm on April 6, 2009, J.S. Batson said…: Hi Jerry: I really love the color in your work. I've just begun trying visual art again; I don't have much time. But, I like to experiment with putting colors together when I can.