ROCK ISLAND GALLERY
“Extraordinary Women”
figurative paintings by Jaclyn Garlock
January 9, 2021 - December 11, 2020
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
About Jaclyn Garlock
Jaclyn Garlock presents “Extraordinary Women.” Garlock’s large-scale paintings depict life sized women engaging in non-salaried work from cooking to laundry to volunteering and enjoying themselves as they do it. The titles of her paintings are borrowed from song lyrics, which is especially appropriate since she resides in Clear Lake, IA, home of the Surf Ballroom, where some say, “the music died.” Her bold, narrative compositions are acrylic on canvas.
Jaclyn has been an artist all her life, but didn’t realize it until she was in her 30’s. She tried teaching and then wanting to do something more creative, opened a silk-screening business. After learning the process of silk-screening, she began to experiment with the process and learned that she could layer images to create more detail. She began staging scenes using various props, which she photographed and then printed on rag paper and sold at fine art fairs around the Midwest. Although she had a BFA in painting, she hadn’t painted since college until the year 2000, when she decided it was time.
Garlock explains, “After messing around with different subjects, I decided to do a self-portrait. I dressed up, put on too much make up, made my hair Tammy Wynette big and set my camera. I loved the result and was on the way to strictly figurative work. All my friends posed for me - they loved dressing up as something they were not. We’d set up different little scenarios and act them out like making a short movie. Then adding in various costume changes, I could stage and photograph the scenes to mimic the ideas I had in mind. With photoshop, photos could be cut and pasted, adding in another figure or different props, to create the best composition. I started building my compositions around women for the simple reason, they are fun to dress up, but added men to the picture a little at a time, until now where they are more than just window dressing.”
Happy with the direction her paintings were taking, Garlock let go of creating and selling screen prints at art fairs. She concentrated on building a body of work to exhibit regionally at art centers and museums. She found that people related to her images and made up stories about the people in the paintings.
Jaclyn has been an artist all her life, but didn’t realize it until she was in her 30’s. She tried teaching and then wanting to do something more creative, opened a silk-screening business. After learning the process of silk-screening, she began to experiment with the process and learned that she could layer images to create more detail. She began staging scenes using various props, which she photographed and then printed on rag paper and sold at fine art fairs around the Midwest. Although she had a BFA in painting, she hadn’t painted since college until the year 2000, when she decided it was time.
Garlock explains, “After messing around with different subjects, I decided to do a self-portrait. I dressed up, put on too much make up, made my hair Tammy Wynette big and set my camera. I loved the result and was on the way to strictly figurative work. All my friends posed for me - they loved dressing up as something they were not. We’d set up different little scenarios and act them out like making a short movie. Then adding in various costume changes, I could stage and photograph the scenes to mimic the ideas I had in mind. With photoshop, photos could be cut and pasted, adding in another figure or different props, to create the best composition. I started building my compositions around women for the simple reason, they are fun to dress up, but added men to the picture a little at a time, until now where they are more than just window dressing.”
Happy with the direction her paintings were taking, Garlock let go of creating and selling screen prints at art fairs. She concentrated on building a body of work to exhibit regionally at art centers and museums. She found that people related to her images and made up stories about the people in the paintings.
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