jbkrost

It says this on jbkrost’s blog profile:

Gender	Male
Location	Northern Ohio,United States
Introduction	I just stab at the canvas and click at the shutter... sometimes it works out
Interests	painting, art, flyfishing, people watching
Favourite Films	mystic river, reflecting skin, cool hand luke, blue velvet, fargo, blood simple, lost highway
Favourite Music	cowboy junkies, john lee hooker, bruce springsteen, roxy music, david bowie, lou reed, lucinda williams, ben harper, talking heads
Favourite Books	prince of tides, as I lay dying, when elephants dance, an unfinished life, The Fountainhead

I like the fact that for such an accomplished artist, if known only too few, could be so self-deprecating as to say “I just stab at the canvas and click at the shutter... sometimes it works out.” It does though. It works out incredibly well. Of course in the end it all comes down to taste. I man, after all, everything is a question of personal preference but I have to say that this man’s work is very much ‘up my street,’ my ‘cup of tea.’

He seems, oddly enough, to quite like his anonymity choosing to let his art speak for him rather than adopting a Daliesque type vaudeville. His paintings of stretched, ghost like. His figures remind me slightly of Edvard Munch’s work. Having said that I am sure neither artist would agree. There is pain here, discomfort but I am not sure why. Perhaps, like Francis Bacon, he is merely reflecting the world or humanity as he sees it.

I know this though. I like jbkrost’s (yes, all in lower case) work. I would certainly be proud to have it hang from my wall.

 

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