Jake's Bio

Summary of Performances

  • Managing Member Art and Business Consulting LLC: 2006-Present.
  • Doing business as AKAJake, Renaissance Woman: 1996-Present
  • Strategic volunteer for artlink, Inc.: 2004
  • Board Member and President of artlink, Inc.: 2002-2003
  • Nuclear Physicist and Graduate Slave: 1993-1996
  • Clueless Undergraduate: 1988-1993
  • Electronics Wizard, Mountain Climber and Frustrated Artist: 1981-1988
  • Globetrotting Military Brat and Clueless Artist: -1981

Travels

Austria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and USA

Grants

  • GAANN Fellowship 1993
  • GAANN Fellowship 1994

 Education

  • MS Nuclear Physics, ASU Tempe, AZ 1996
  • BS Physics, ASU Tempe, AZ 1993
  • Barrett Honors College Graduate, ASU 1993
  • Self-realized Artist.

 Affiliations

  • NAEA, AZSEA, CACEA 2007- present
  • AIPB 2006 - present
  • artlink, Inc. 2002-present
  • ACM 2002-present
  • SPS 1992-present
  • ARRL 1992-present
  • APS 1988-present
  • SPS 1988-1996

 Bodies of work

  • Abstract: Often people have asked why I put that thing in front of that lovely abstract, these I left alone
  • PopCult: Explorations into the absurdities of pop culture.  Its really fun.
  • Figurative: The human form in action and in repose
  • Cruise: The romance and fantasy that is roaring down the open road in low flight.  
  • Pastel:  Exploring new ideas rapidly brought life through the medium that is pastel. 
  • Aerial: Exploring the abstract qualities of aerial landscape, with birds.
  • Exploratory Stuff:  New ideas that I am kicking around. 
  • Fractal Dreams: Paintings exploring the beauty of fractals, tessellations, mathematics and their connection to the natural world.
  • Graffiti Series: Primitive archetypes, motifs, limited color pallets produced on canvas textured with pumice.
  • Folks and Critters: Portraits and figurative works, people and animals.
  • The Cactus Flower Series: Studies of native desert flowers of the southwest.
  • The Alaska Series: Investigations into Pacific Northwest mythology: ravens, whales, Dalls sheep, otters, owls, auroras and starscapes.
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  • Sticks: These paintings hark to time spent camping in Northern AZ at the So High Ranch: Aspens and Pine Trees.
  • Red Rocks: Paintings inspired by Oak Creek Canyon and Sedona AZ: Riparian scenes, sculpted red rocks, rounded gray rocks, water and trees. 
  • Xmas Dementia Series:  Annual visitation in to the absurdities of holiday mythology created in digital cartoons.
  • The Formative Series: Explorations of Stories to be Told. Detailed paintings of the fantastic and surreal.

Selected Exhibitions

  • Sonoran Safari Arizona Museum for Youth May 2-August 10, 2008
  • MOB5 at the Kollectiv Art Detour 20 March 2008
  • Underwater Fantasea Arizona Museum for Youth March 2007 - July 2007
  • Art Detour 19 MonOrchid Mystery Gallery Mob4 March 2007
  • Art Detour 18 MonOrchid Mystery Gallery Mob3 March 2006
  • Sunday At Shemer Shemer Art Museum November 2005
  • Introducing McDowell Row Garfield Galleria Suite 102 November 2005
  • Third Annual Herberger College of Fine Art Artwalk at ASU's Reunion FestDevil October 2005
  • Two Artists Two Visions Guest artist Cobalt Blue Gallery Phoenix AZ October 2005
  • Art Detour 17 MonOrchid Mystery Gallery Mob2 March 2005
  • Second Annual Herberger College of Fine Art Artwalk at ASU's Homecoming November 2004
  • Guest artist Cobalt Blue Gallery Phoenix AZ August 2004
  • Grand Opening of the Phix Gallery Phoenix AZ May 2004
  • White Lace, Promises and Big Black Dogs at The Paper Heart Gallery Phoenix AZ December 2003
  • Promotion for White Lace, Promises and Big Black Dogs 101 Renaissance Plaza Phoenix AZ November 2003
  • First Annual Herberger College of Fine Art Artwalk at ASU's Homecoming October 2003
  • artlink, Inc. Mystery Gallery 111 West Monroe Phoenix AZ July-September 2003

 
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