Artist Statement: "In December of 2001 I began intensive experiments with collage, further diversifying my language to widen the scope of communicative faculty. The materials I chose to collage with were collected, sorted, categorized and filed with no preferential consideration toward any one type of element. Comic books, fliers, magazine images, advertisements, wrapping papers, plastics, commercial packaging, receipts and copied materials all found their way into these arrangements. Once I had a substantial palette of materials I began to see individual and unconscious visual predilections as to how I determined what is of value and usefulness for my expression."

"The organization, selection, manipulation and rearrangement of collected printed information lends itself well to honing sensitivity toward randomization and the dynamics of chance. By not adhering to any style or theme, I was able to achieve a more universal balance and openness in the work through the context of accident, confusion, and disassociation. In relinquishing the variables of control I did not necessarily find control, but I became accustomed to not having it. I feel this allows for further questions into creative processing. My interest, instead of making an abstract image, is to process thought in an abstract way. The art-making tools and intentions are only that, the artist determines what the tools are to be used for and only in some cases, seldom my own, are they exclusively utilized to make images for decorating walls. The premise in this is that the art object is only a document of the evolution of an artist; the real value or worth is within, manifesting and furthering him into a greater responsive and changing being." Jeremie Zulask

Artist Bio: Jeremie Zulaski, at the age of three, remembers tracing his left hand, turning the image upside-down, placing a dot in the thumb and calling it a dinosaur.

Twenty years later he received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree with a concentration in oil painting from the State University of New York College at Buffalo. While attending, Jeremie’s imagination activated traditional subjects in painting, sculpture’s additive, subtractive and constructive methods, multi-media performance, photography, printmaking, principles of design, diverse drawing media, literature as well as art history and theory. He was presented with the Annual Award for Excellence in the Fine Art of Painting and relocated to Portland, Oregon.

In Portland, Jeremie would broaden the scale of his painting while continuing to sculpt, collage, shoot photography, as well as compose and perform poetry and music before relocating again the next year to San Diego, California. There he is continuing to expand portfolio and resume while focusing on application to graduate programs. While in San Diego, he has worked at the San Diego Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Jeremie is currently a framing designer for Artrageous! and a painting instructor for the San Diego Art Department.

Contact the Artist:
jeremiezulaski@hotmail.com