{"id":6469,"date":"2015-06-24T17:45:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T23:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=6469"},"modified":"2015-06-24T17:45:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T23:45:46","slug":"painting-with-the-subconscious-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2015\/06\/24\/painting-with-the-subconscious-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting with the Subconscious Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Guest Blogger, Patrick Bollinger<\/strong>
\nA profile series on the artists and individuals of\u00a0The Art Classic<\/em>, one of this year\u2019s exhibitions at the LA County Fair \u2013 September 4-27, 2015
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\n\u201cOne of the things I try to do when I paint is try not to think.\u201d Steve Jakobsen
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\nSteve Jakobsen is a contemporary artist who is originally from Seattle. He went to school in Seattle for graphic design, and became a graphic designer in New York. He then joined a Mexican soccer team and moved to central Mexico. He said that this experience was a wake up call in his life. He came to the realization that \u201cthe whole world is absolutely different than America. People react to things differently. People actually care about things because their lives actually depend on it.\u201d
\nAfter Mexico, he moved to Los Angeles and became a painter. As a painter, he tries to do the opposite of what he did as a graphic designer. \u201cI try to get away from that when I\u2019m painting. That’s too much of a process – too engineered.\u201d
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\n\u201c[Painting] is a great time where I\u2019m left alone and my head stops working. Screw the cerebral shit, and just let the lizard part of your brain, the frontal lobe just do whatever it needs to do. It will bring in everything you have experienced in life towards it and help you tell the story when you\u2019re painting.\u201d
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\nWhen asked about artistic inspiration he said that \u201cwalking the streets is the biggest thing, and just riding my bike around the streets of Downtown LA.\u201d He is interested in the community and the \u201cbehaviors, textures, motion, speed of flow, and what is going on.\u201d
\nHis artistic process starts with a sketchbook. He sketches just the general idea and layout, then transforms this to the canvas by using spray paint and oil to create the base of where things are going to go.
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\nAfter this stage he lets his subconscious mind takeover. \u00a0His subconscious guides his hand to represent the things he has observed on the streets of Downtown LA. He lets his \u201cLizard Brain\u201d as he calls it wander all over the canvas. This process makes it very hard to tell when it\u2019s complete. \u201cKnowing when to stop is very hard. It’s hard to stop.\u201d
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\nSteve Jakobsen\u2019s work will be featured in the Millard Sheets Art Center\u2019s upcoming exhibition\u00a0The Art Classic<\/em>.<\/a>
\nPlease join us this year at the\u00a0LA County Fair<\/a>\u00a0to view Steve\u2019s work and the other artists profiled in this series from the\u00a0Los Angeles Art Association<\/a>\u00a0who were selected for this year\u2019s exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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