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Drawn into something : a memoir of becoming an artist age 0 to 21Entry/Object ID
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172 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Drawn into something : a memoir of becoming an artist age 0 to 21 by Jeff Whipple.
Includes: Education -- Fellowships & major awards -- Solo exhibitions -- Group exhibitions -- Public art commissions & purchases -- Teaching experience -- Public & corporate collections -- Playwriting -- Public lectures.
Photo: Painting of Lana Shuttleworth & Dr. Wayne Wood (p.170)
Introduction by Tim Gilmore: Jeff Whipple’s memoir draws you into it immediately. You can’t help but join Whipple, step by step, in his evolution as a person, as an artist. There are memoirs and autobiographies that never reveal how their author came to be the person writing, but Whipple’s dives deep into those questions. In fact, it’s astonishing how much he remembers, the extent of documentation he’s able to tap and to share. Some of it will break your heart and some will make you laugh out loud. To know Whipple as an artist is to want to know the story behind his work. If you don’t know Whipple’s art, you’ll flip through his book, discover the story richly illustrated by his “twisted realism,” and need to know. Whipple’s paintings show you something deeper in the life you already knew by showing you something askew, and his writing worms you in the same way. Text and image interrelate. Whipple’s imagery is innately narrative, though in this illustrated story, it’s the words that illustrate the visual. Jeff Whipple’s memoir is a sharply attuned bildungsroman, the story of one’s coming into being. From his first words about his father, you’re absorbed in that process. You can’t help but empathize with Whipple toward the contradictions of his mother’s responses to his creative growth. It’s impossible not to relate to his deeply textured remembrances of how teachers at all levels of his education impacted him, for good and for ill. You yourself grow through the internal compressions and tensions and torsions of a young artist struggling toward and into his own vision. In reading Jeff Whipple’s memoir, you grow with his story, enriched. You won’t want to put it down and when you’re finished, you’ll want the next chapter.Collection
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Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Gilmore, Tim., Whipple, Jim, 1957- .Publication Details
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Whipple, Jeff, 1957-Publisher
Jeff K. WhipplePlace Published
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[Jacksonville, Fla.]Call No.
ND 237 .W45 A4 2022ISBN
9798813865398
