Art & Life with Jeremy Uglow

Today we’d like to introduce you to Jeremy Uglow.

Jeremy holds a Master’s of Fine Art from (PAFA) the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with an emphasis in Visual Studies – Painting and a Bachelor’s of Fine Art from (UW-W) the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater with an emphasis in Painting. In his final semester at PAFA, the graduate faculty nominated him for the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation’s 2012 MFA Grant and was the recipient of several scholarships and awards. After graduation, Uglow assisted the internationally collected artist, Osvaldo Romberg in the creation of a sculpture that was exhibited at the 2012 Art Basel – Miami fair. He has exhibited his work in galleries across the country including; Chelsea New York City, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee, as well as, being published in the Northeast issue #104 of New American Paintings. In 2016 Uglow was invited to be the Visiting Artist Lecturer for the Advanced Painting class at UW-W. 2017 he curated and installed “Poems for Nothing” at ArtBar, Milwaukee, WI.

Can you give our readers some background on your art?
I am the cartoon of the impossible reality worn foremost for all to see and accept. I am the you that makes the Me that you see. We becomes I, you is me. I am an attempt to be the projection I wear over the me I am.

To bring forth the possibility of self-realization or escape to view an existence from just outside. Through open eyes closed, they stare in an unbridled glare to the strangeness of the normal and guess at what it is that has produced this ever-passing moment. In order to discover what is inside, they must first look to what remains superficially without forgetting or denying the questions that, before then, seemed so simple, understood, and not in need of further investigation. An all-encompassing “darkness” begins to become Nothing. Not Nothing as nothing at all but Nothing as a physical non-reality, reality. Only through being outside of this Nothing existence can it be realized because it is everything and nothing, thereafter, with no way of knowing that there is no longer something to have known.

In your view, what is the biggest issue artists have to deal with?
The biggest challenge facing us all, artists and otherwise alike, today is probably the proliferation of imagery and information without the benefit of meaning.

What’s the best way for someone to check out your work and provide support?
www.jeremyuglowart.com
Instagram: je_u
Facebook: Jeremy Uglow Art
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Contact Info:

• Website: www.jeremyuglowart.com
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• Facebook: JeremyUglow

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