Exploring relationships, roles, and transformation with materials, paint, human forms, and abstractions. Always in search of walls. Contemporary works on canvas and other materials.
I find the tangible forms we experience life through fascinating. I draw from life, and use those drawings as references for paintings.
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Paint materials assembled as abstracted sculptural forms in painting-inspired collage to draw a relationship between process, presence, and transformation.
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This news caught me by surprise this afternoon. It feels really good to know someone connected with this piece. Thank you so much, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts. Continue reading Dancing in the Dark got first place
Figures on Clothes
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.
oil / mixed media
16×24″
Completed in March of 2018, this personal painting is the first of some of my new work exploring relationships.
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.
Prep
30×40″ oil on canvas
2017, Jodee Clifford
(left)
Ochos
30×40″ oil on canvas
2017, Jodee Clifford
(right)
I’m exploring relationships through human form, body language, and connection. Continue reading West Coast Swing Dancers, 2 Large Oil Paintings
Oil paintings of swing dancers on canvas.
12×12″ oil/canvas. 2017
30×40, Oil on Canvas
(Jodee Clifford / 2017)
West Coast Swing, Duck, Oil painting swing dancers on canvas. Lead Follow dancing, Connection Symbolism Dance Painting, 30×40″. 2017 Jodee Clifford
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Seated Woman, Charcoal, Pastel and Conte on blue pastel paper c. 2006, by Jodee Clifford
Available at artseejodee.etsy.com
https://www.etsy.com/listing/579803400/seated-female-figure-model-conte-pastel
Dancing in the dark, west coast swing
9×12″, Ink on Paper
Jodee Clifford, 2017
https://www.etsy.com/listing/592303005/west-coast-swing-dance-ink-drawing-jodee
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