Painting

“NO ONE PLACE” YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE

Thursday, May 11, 2006

 


Jimmy Jalapeeno joked that he "is an artist about whom little is known," at his talk at D Berman Gallery. Facetious perhaps, however maybe he joked because not only has it been a while since D Berman has presented an exhibition of Jalapeeno's work, but also because he paints landscapes, which historically have been underappreciated.

Don't be confused. Jalapeeno's landscapes are absolutely contemporary and this latest series, titled, "No One Place," are more multifaceted than one might expect.

He still shows off impressionist brush stroke, brilliant use of color and strong sense of organization and geometry to portray what appear to be Texas Hill Country scenes. However, here the artist is testing the tension between real and fake. These landscapes are nonspecific. Rather they are composites of suggested memories and experiences of various places.

Rock formations, pastures, tree lines and skies exist in ambiguous space with shifting perspectives. Photographic compositional influences clearly can be detected, yet these works are undoubtedly exercises in painting. Many if not most, approach abstraction. Jalapeeno refers to his paintings as "matrices," enclosed, often rectangular, spaces where
equations are made and something origiinates. Functioning slightly like simu-
lacrum, they seem thoroughly familiar, faintly strange and even occasionally
disorienting.

- Erin Keever

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