{"id":365,"date":"2009-03-26T14:24:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T21:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/03\/desperate_characters_in_glue\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T21:24:51","slug":"desperate_characters_in_glue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/03\/desperate_characters_in_glue.html","title":{"rendered":"Desperate characters in glue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Teraoka’s aging women have the predatory weight of Jose Clemente Orozco’s, especially the upside-down blonde at the bottom of the frame in a mural in the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City.<\/p>\n

Like Orozco, Teraoka knows how to take the air out of a room. He knows how to paint glamor after it’s gone and everybody’s time is borrowed. <\/p>\n

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His women can eat you whole; his men have nothing to say and nothing to say it with. Teraoka grew up in Hawaii watching movies interrupted by commercials on late night TV.<\/p>\n

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He paints with acrylics in wet glue:<\/p>\n

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\nA few years ago, I became really frustrated with this painting I was working on. So I took a bottle of glue, squirted it all over, and applied more paint on top of that. I liked what it was doing, so I kept developing this method. The wet glue absorbs the acrylic paints in a certain way, so I feel like I can get a nice skin quality. I guess it’s a psychological thing too – I can really ‘feel’ the skin texture as I’m painting. As it starts to dry, it repels. That’s how I get the washes in the background: I get this foamy mix, and as I paint it over it separates, creating these interesting effects.<\/p>\n

-from Toyoko Art Beat<\/i>, full interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

His background is in graphic novels. If he were what Pop Surrealism<\/a> were about, I’d be all over it. Instead, too often, it’s illustrative fantasy, skillfully drawn. <\/p>\n

Teraoka is at James Harris<\/a> through Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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