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Residency Program
Jonathan Saiz
Jonathan Saiz is a 25-year-old native of Colorado and is represented as a full-time professional artist by Plus Gallery in Denver. From 2001-2003 he studied painting at Parsons School of Design in Paris, France, Parsons School of Design in New York and at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. After his formal studies he moved to Berlin, Germany to pursue his career abroad and, as of 2004 has been back in Denver developing his gallery work. His debut solo show, Closed for Winter, opened at Plus Gallery in February of 2007 and, most recently, his Piano Project was featured at the gallery through May of 2008. About his work he writes, My focus is as much or more on the construction and form of my work, instead of the just the 2-d imagery, I consider the definition In my work the paint itself and the surface it is on can be as communicative as a representational image and together they create something that has become the source of plenty of new ideas to explore. I intend to continue to develop these visual conversations between the two and three dimensions. |
of my work to be right in between painting and sculpture. With wood as the starting material I construct boxes and forms that are later painted with imagery ranging from the abstract to the photo-realistic representational. Using one box in combination with another ,or many, the relationships between the imagery, the shapes and the scale create singular assemblages with narrative.