Jon Eastman Exhibits thru Sept 9 / There’s Art in hArtford: Art at Milagro
There’s Art in hArtford: Art at Milagro.
Jon Eastman’s art work is a plumb line that takes its readings, in the broken, broken down, kicked around of this world: evidences of human dreams, shone bright or utterly failed, that prefigure the natural world from which elements of the junked arises. Industrial forms, thrown on to Eastman’s potter’s wheel of a mind, turn into new shapes and interrelationships, both abstract and concrete. They bring to mind the poet Jack Gilbert’s “great fires” — those furnaces of Pittsburgh steel where his poems began.
Eastman’s art enlivens civilization’s junked carcass into wholly new forms. He turns endings to beginnings with adventurous sophistication, intelligence, complexity, and delight. Every piece “shows”, literally. He turns manufactured scars inside out so we get to see them breathe. Jon Eastman turns art in much the same way iconographers embellish(ed) objects of devotion with gold leaf. ~ yours truly, df
“Milagro is thrilled to be exhibiting the work of Jon Eastman, Bloomfield mixed media artist and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art preparator. His work has been featured in galleries across Connecticut for the past 20 years and we are honored to feature him in our inaugural Open Gallery Night.
Jon describes his work as “essentially a hybrid of making art and collecting ‘junk’, or more specifically, found objects and discarded materials. I’m just as inspired by a vintage paint scraper or television tube as seeing a Jackson Pollack painting; the challenge is to put these elements together and make a new statement. . . . Private viewings can be arranged by calling our office at 860 895 6085.”
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