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JAY SILVERSTEINToday, the average weekly screen time for an American adult – brace yourself; this is not a typo – is 74 hours – and still increasing. On those screens, I receive my pop-conscious postmodern fiction. This genre is built on ideas – traced back to the fifties and sixties – which reject grand narratives; There is one True God, History is Progress, Peace on Earth. Postmodernism lacks that optimism. It is steeped in cynicism, irreverence, moral relativism, and irony. It is an excellent critical tool, but its deployment is more slash-and-burn than careful pruning. My artistic output addresses the hip, cynical transcendence of sentimentality with a compelling alternative, embracing maximalist self-sincerity
A great existential crisis remains ever on the horizon. As my art practice relies ever-more heavily on digital intervention, I have come to realize that my ability to make work may someday come to an end. Not by death, not by disfigurement or by dissolution of will, but by lack of technological sophistication |
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Studio Location: 37 NE 1st Street, Pompano Beach
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Website: Email: jaysilver26@gmail.com |