chase the light

The weekend before I left for holiday I actually purchased another of Jett Jackson’s [LINK] paintings. She was showing some work at a show in Beverly Hills and I was hoping she’d still have this one painting that I really liked.

I went the first day of the show to check and someone had given her a bid on it. They said they’d go home and come back at 3:00 if they decide they wanted it. So I came along at about 2:00 and asked her if it was sold and she said she’d had a bid in on it but that if I could beat it by a $100 I could take it right then. She wanted me to have it anyway since I’d already bought a painting from her before and was a known quantity. I told her I’d take it but I’d have to run home and get my checkbook, because if I take my checkbook to an art show I’ll start writing checks until the sun comes up. I’d have lots of art but no roof over my head. I came back with the check and asked her if she could hold onto the painting until I get back from holiday. She was glad to do that because she was having a hard time selling anything at the show because at that point there were people interested but so few actual buyers. She hoped once something had a sold sign on it people would start making decisions. So right after she put a sold sign on mine she said everybody suddenly went nuts and bought enough paintings for her to live off of for the next 6 months. Nice. There were even a few who said they were disappointed because they had wanted mine. Buyers really succumb to peer pressure. They’re a childish lot.

Anyway, tonight I went to pick up the painting. She lives at the Santa Fe Art Colony [LINK] and I got to check out her studio. It was so amazing. What a great place, but what a scary ass part of town to live. They have an open house in May that is supposed to be really great. Frankly I get a much better vibe out of this place than most of the hacks over at the Brewery [LINK]. Below is the painting on the easel surrounded by some of her other work. She’s a bit of a surrealist in a Dali/Picasso sorta way, and I think a touch of art deco via Tamara de Lempicka [LINK]. It’s called “Random Muse-ing”, and the woman has all sorts of little things floating about in her head. (hi darling)

I still love the first one I bought because it also has the same sorta melancholy feeling [LINK]. Although it’s a wee bit sadder. You can click on the pics to get the details. Damn, that’s one beautiful painting. All the cool people think so.