Jun Jamosmos - Feature Artist, June
Stockton Art League
Reception: Saturday, June 8th 4-7 pm
Jun’s favorite media are oil and acrylic. In either of these versatile medium, he approaches his paintings with an attitude of finding freedom. He says, "...every subject I paint invokes a call to a journey that doesn't stop with and in the canvas. For beyond I see freedom..." The freedom to create and express oneself in a visual medium is liberating for him. These days, Jun has been honing his technique in portrait painting and he tries to capture simple snapshots of the everyday life of just about anyone – from farmers to children and swimmers to dancers.
Jun is drawn to simple, plain objects but more than what meets the eye, he paints to find and depict deeper meaning in his subjects. His inspiration stems from the beauty of creation as well as the complexity of it - whether in a familiar scene, thing or face - even a stranger's facial features. He echoes the uniqueness and individuality of how each one of us is created differently, in the warm earth tones of his paintings with his palette primarily a blend of burnt sienna, alizarin crimson, titanium white and mars black.
Jun primarily paints from life, from photographs or memories of an experience. For him, every subject he paints invokes a call to a journey that doesn’t stop in the canvas or the frame. His body of art on exhibit is the headshot portrait - challenging, complex and colorful as human nature itself.
Originally from the Visayan region of the Philippines, he started to draw when he was five years old and painting became a hobby while growing up. Jun is a self-taught artist primarily by brooding over art books and magazines, visiting art museums and galleries. He has studied the techniques of international artists Robert Wade, William Hook, John Pototschnick and Morgan Weistling.
He moved to Stockton, California from the Philippines in 1995 and settled down with his equally talented wife, Adjing, and their two children – Asia and Gio. He has joined and sold his work in various art shows in the Central Valley. He is a regular at the Elsie May Goodwin Gallery and continues to do art commission work, including large mural projects, while working as an accountant here in Stockton. He is willing to give back to the Stockton community what it has given him through various opportunities showcasing his artwork in different community-outreach avenues. He has also painted live on stage, and off-stage to the inspiration of music. He has conducted art workshops for the beginner and advanced painters of all ages.
His artwork is enjoying worldwide exposure by being exhibited online through his website – www.jamosmos.com Jun’s works are in private collections here in the United States, Asia and Europe.
Patti Wallace – Demonstration Artist – Art Therapy
Thursday, June 13, 2013 6-8 pm
ARTIST’S STATEMENT:
PATTI WALLACE has been doing art her whole life. She studied Art @ Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, with Corita Kent (“Sister Corita”), graduating in 1970 (B.A.). She did graduate work in Education to earn an Elementary Teaching Credential. Since there were no Art teaching jobs in 1971, she volunteered Art Therapy experiences for a Community Mental Health Center before discovering a Master’s Degree program in Art Therapy in D.C., The George Washington University. She has been helping people to use art to increase creative self-expression as an Art Therapist since 1973. It can’t be 40 years can it? She has worked mostly with adult mental health patients in both in-patient & out-patient settings, in Orange County & Sacramento. She is currently working with Adults with Developmental Disabilities in a day program, Learning Options, Service First, Stockton.
She started Psychoanalytic training in 1986, completing that work in 1997, becoming a Research Psychoanalyst. She received a Doctorate in the Psychology of Psychoanalysis in 2007 (Psy. D.).
Patti has active in the Lodi Community Art Center for the last 13 years, has served as President, three different times in three different locations, and is currently chair for Classes & Demos for the Art Center. She has taken classes from local artists & offered some as well. Her main focus is to continue the art adventure in experimentation with the colors of life and beyond and sharing this ongoing curiosity with others as students, patients, friends, all are peers in this journey.
About the Event
Feature Artist of the Month - Jun Jamosmos – Oils
Reception held Saturday, June 8 from 4-7 pm
Demonstration Artis - Patti Wallace
Thursday, June 13 from 6-8 pm
Experiential Art Therapy
Both events are free and open to the public!