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William Martin Jean
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For artist William Martin Jean, art has the ability to
cleanse the mind and transport the viewer to another
realm of heightened reality. Through subtly colored,
ordered abstractions, the artist probes subjects and
ideas for which realism has no vocabulary. Eliciting a
dialogue between the artist and the viewer, the works
uncover relationships between memory, time, and
place, manifest in the depths of human introspection.
The artist employs a grid format, not as an exercise in
abstract theory, but as a repository for the accumulation
of visual and later of emotional experience, allowing the
repetitions of patterns and variations of color and shape
to penetrate the consciousness. Unlike Josef Albers,
whose geometric forms were contrived to explore the
affects of color, or the Minimalists whose lines stood for
neutrality and anonymity, Jean uses the precise order of
his grid for a highly personal mode of expression.
Many of Jean’s collaged abstractions are impelled by a
reverence for architecture, archeology, and culture,
nurtured through travels in Mexico, Europe, North Africa,
and Turkey, and particularly Kyoto, Japan. The
quietness, beauty and elegance of Jean’s work has
deep roots in Asian art and memory.
William Martin Jean is both a prominent award-winning
artist, and a distinguished educator. His work is in
public, private and corporate collections across the
United States.
Additional work by William Martin Jean
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