2006, Oil Painting: Flowered Linen Dress, Oil on Linen / Mixed Media
2019, Oil Painting: Linen Dress w Pocket, Oil on Linen / Mixed Media
I delivered two oil paintings to 3rd Street Gallery in Philadelphia yesterday. They’re going to be in the show, Embodiment: Figure In Art. It feels good to have work out on display in the world.
Two 30×30″ figurative oil paintings on stretched clothing are in this show. Both from my series of Figures on Clothes, Flowered Linen Dress was completed in 2006, Linen Dress with Pocket was painted in 2006 and reworked in 2019.
Drop off day just so happened to be on the last night of Freedom Swing. It was nice to get some long overdue dancing in while in town. The same thing happened in Boston. I kind of love this trend of galleries being in close proximity to good dancing.
Since early 2018, I started painting slow oil paintings from the information from fast croquis. I’ve been exploring ideas about connection so much lately, First Impressions have been a huge part. Here I’ve been fascinated with painting something equivalent to overthinking details about someone who makes a strong first impression, based mostly on intuition and energy like a gesture drawing. Continue reading First Impressions
Figures on Clothes was one of my first series of paintings around 2003. I painted them with relationship ideas between clothing and the human form explored between subject matter and material. I painted nude female figures directly onto the surface of stretched and prepared clothing as I would on primed canvas.
In 2003, I started painting nude women onto the surface of stretched and prepared clothing as though it were canvas.
In revisiting the series, I’m bringing in some intimate and emotional elements. I plan to continue these.
Unzipped dress. Jodee Clifford, 2018, Oil Painting: Embroidered Flowery Linen, Oil on Linen / Mixed Media
Jodee Clifford, 2006, Oil Painting: Embroidered Flowery Linen, Oil on Linen / Mixed Media
Jodee Clifford, 2004, Oil Painting: Green Sweater, Mixed Media
Sold / Jodee Clifford, 2004, Oil Painting: Blue Suede Jacket Back, Mixed Media
Figures on clothes, 2004, Oil painting. Mixed media. Jodee Clifford
First Impression: Linen Skirt, 2018
oil / mixed media
12×12″
Jodee Clifford, 2004, Oil Painting: Blue Suede Pants, Mixed Media
Jodee Clifford, 2004, Oil Painting: Night Shirt, Mixed Media
First Impression: Linen Skirt, 2018
oil / mixed media
12×12″
Plaid Dress, Jodee Clifford, 2004, Oil Painting, Mixed Media
Figures on Clothes was my first series of paintings starting c. 2003. To me, they began with the relationship between clothing and nudity using the human form explored between subject matter and material. I painted these nude female figures directly onto the surface of stretched and prepared clothing as I would on primed canvas.
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