artist statement - Jasmine Sadki
Art enables the artist to freely express their ideas in a way that can yield huge impact.  I am very interested in sharing societal opinions through my work.I find that I am most interested in vivid, saturate color, how it enlivens the picture plane and engages the viewer.  The volume, repetition of forms, quantity, and overpowering scenes of material goods consumes me.  I am also attracted to different shapes, planes, and their relationship to one another.  Space is an integral aspect of my work as well.  I tend to manipulate space in my compositions in order to give the viewer the feeling of compressed and flat areas.I continually process visual information in hopes of interpreting it in a way that re-presents the world to viewers through my eyes.  It is ironic to think that my work will be viewed as fine art, while in reality, the subject matter is the proliferation of consumer products for every day living.  This process of selecting banal subject matter and elevating it to fine art is indebted to Pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.  My work is very much related to traditional still-life painting and is informed by Pop art.  Frakenthaler, Chardin, Sultan, Gorky and Thiebaud are some of the artists that I am currently interested in.  Through working and study, I continue to refine my particular voice.  The question I pose for myself is this:  What subject can contemporary painting take and still remain relevant to everyday culture?