If there was ever a Juxtapoz Hall of Fame, James Jean would be a first ballot inductee. Everything this magazine has stood for, whether it be reinvent...
“Erhu. Acrylic on Wood, 18x24”, 2019.”
Working with traditional and digital techniques, Taiwanese artist James Jean creates amazing (and sometimes nightmarish) scenes. More illustrations via From Up North
James Jean’s fantastical acrylic paintings and digital works are absorbing, even if viewers aren’t offered a specific storyline for each work. In his latest works, the artist packs even more abstraction, hues, and icons into these tales. Often, his paintings offer surreal interplay between humans and the animal world. Jean was last featured on HiFructose.com here.
About Erhu is a signed and numbered time-limited edition of giclee prints. The Erhu, or spike fiddle, typically has two strings, but the instrument being played here is missing a tuning spike. Perhaps the other spike was used to silence the lover, and now his hair has been strung up and resonates with a song of remorse and release. Subtle pearlescent embellishments are stamped around the figure, and her dress is dripping with silkscreened gloss. In the lower right corner, a portal opens to another time and dimension, and is highlighted with a holographic sheen. In the embossment below, the monk harmonizes with his bassoon. - James Jean James Jean - Erhu - Contemporary Art Screen Print Year: 2019 Class: Art Print Released: 09/06/19 Run: 1,003 Technique: Giclee Size: 18 X 23.5 Markings: Signed & Numbered Manufacturer: Pressure Printing Acquired during the online release from the artist James Jean fuses contemporary subjects with aesthetic techniques inspired by traditional Chinese scroll paintings, Japanese woodblock prints, and Renaissance portraiture. By experimenting with different styles and art-historical genres, Jean depicts detailed cosmological worlds that focus on both individual and universal experiences. His small-scale pieces feature single figures engaged in everyday tasks, and are focused on specific narratives and emotions. Jean’s large-scale works recall complex Hieronymus Bosch paintings and majestic Tang Dynasty landscapes. Layered with imagery drawn from both contemporary culture and age-old allegories, the artist imagines a collective realm of mythological proportions.
Looking at the work of LA-based, Taipei-born "James Jean":http://www.jamesjean.com/ is like stepping in a hallucinatory world with its own internal logic, dimensions and flow of time. Simultaneously tranquil and tumultuous, his large-scale and immensely detailed paintings evoke the phantasmagorical chaos of dreams.
James Jean’s fantastical acrylic paintings and digital works are absorbing, even if viewers aren’t offered a specific storyline for each work. In his latest works, the artist packs even more abstraction, hues, and icons into these tales. Often, his paintings offer surreal interplay between humans and the animal world. Jean was last featured on HiFructose.com here.
"the aim of every artist is to arrest motion…" -Faulkner
James Jean es un artista americano de origen taiwanés, muy conocido por su trabajo como ilustrador de portadas para cómics, así como por sus colaboraciones con reconocidas marcas del mundo de la moda, entre las que destacan su trabajo para Prada
James Jean’s fantastical acrylic paintings and digital works are absorbing, even if viewers aren’t offered a specific storyline for each work. In his latest works, the artist packs even more abstraction, hues, and icons into these tales. Often, his paintings offer surreal interplay between humans and the animal world. Jean was last featured on HiFructose.com here.
James Jean received a BFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2001 His artwork is influenced by Henry Darger, Neo Rauch, Chris ware, plus many others. "The paintings and illustrations are often suffused with a dreamy romanticism and lyricism worthy of Maxfield Parrish, even as Mr. Jean subverts those and other isms. - "Jennings, Dana. "The Power of Fairy Tales". "Comics Canonization". The New York Times. August 18, 2011
James Jean is a Taiwanese American visual artist, was born in Taiwan and was raised in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. He was educated at the School...
An Interview with James Jean
If you were to make a list of the most iconic artists we have seen grow over the course of the last 25 years, James Jean is on top of the list. From h...
James Jean is a Taiwanese American artist with a unique story. He's an imaginative illustrator who was born in Taiwan and grew up in New Jersey.
James Jean Santiago, 2022 Archival Print on Cotton Rag Paper Print size: 15-5/9 x 11-5/9 in | Frame size: 16 x 12 x 1 inEdition of 200 Hand Signed + Numbered by the artist FROM JAMES JEANIn the wasteland of the North, there is a dark sea. In it swims a fish of incalculable length. His name is K’un. He transforms into P’eng, an enormous bird with wings that span the sky and create cyclones in their wake. A fisherman, Santiago, rides on top of P’eng and hopes to harpoon something valuable in the swirling northern sea. Much like how the painting Santiago creates an amalgam of Eastern and Western storytelling and mythology, this new limited edition represents a further innovation in the multi-process prints of James Jean, transforming the lushly embellished print into a hangable object that can be appreciated in all dimensions. In our most complex and technically ambitious edition yet, Santiago features a built in wood frame adorned with intricate raised details that are drawn from the personal hieroglyphics of Jean’s universe. As always, each print and frame is hand assembled with exacting precision, creating a harmonious object that occupies a space between printmaking, painting, and sculpture.
In a new exhibition at Lotte Museum in Seoul, more than 500 works from artist James Jean are on display, from large-scale paintings and installations to to video art and stained glass sculptures. “Eternal Journey” opened on April 4 and runs through Sept. 1. Jean is in the Hi-Fructose Collected 4 Box Set, and was the cover artist for three issues: Vol. 48, Vo. 30, and Vol. 15.
Showcasing more than 500 pieces of new and old work.
Not only the cover image of the September 2016 issue, James Jean's painting, "Bouquet" has been the centerpiece of Juxtapoz x Superflat. Here's h...
