Jeremy Long (Ohio) curriculum vitae
“My position is that nature provides so many answers and questions about painting that if one were to disregard the act of looking as a mere academic activity then the opportunity of literally learning how to see would be missed.   Having said that, I don’t agree with Duchamp when he states that the eye is a dumb organ. Duchamp talked about the eye of the mind but I think the eye has a mind of its own and there are different ways we see. My work comes out of abstraction and is engaged with forming ideas derived from Cubism and Mondrian. I admire cubism because at its best it never got rid of the painting that came before it, instead it added something new.  I am not looking backward at representation; I am looking forward to the possibilities available in modernist construction and its sensibility when applied to the motif, its form and its space. Painting should engage bodily and this relates to empathy; I need to feel myself in it.”

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