Fjords Reviews

June 17, 2016

Samuel Jablon at Arts+Leisure
April 9-May 15. 2016

 

 

Samuel Jablon’s latest collection Life is Fine was up at Arts+Leisure and featured some great mixed media work on wood. We caught up with him for a few questions.

F: In the scope of your latest collection, what did you want to accomplish?

SJ: I wanted to the paintings to be about painting, and I wanted the letters to almost dissolve into the paint.

F: How did your color choices affect patterning and vice versa?

SJ: I tried to make the color choice amplify the text. For instance the phrase "Everything Living Dies" is very upbeat and colorful.

F: And then send a short introduction in third person about your work.

SJ: Samuel Jablon is both an artist and a poet, his work deals with text, color and materiality. The work presented in Life is Fine was painterly and sculptural. His paintings are vibrant renderings of words abstracted, a kind of visual manifestation of poetry. He appropriates found language — overheard words and familiar phrases, lines of poetry and offhand comments — and transmutes them into compositions. Language disintegrates into letters, which dissolve into line, shape and color.