Jeremy Mann is a member of the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory
Jeremy Mann born 1979 and graduated from Ohio University with a Cum Laude degree in Fine Art-Painting. Afterward, he ventured out to California where he earned his Master’s Degree in 2008 with Valedictorian honors at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Since then, Jeremy has garnered substantial attention in the art world. Praised by critics and collectors alike, his work has graced five covers of American Art Collector magazine as well as Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and International Artist Magazine.
Executed on medium to large-scale panels, each exciting work demonstrates the artist’s unmistakable style. Working on wood panels provides a strong support, where Mann can utilize a number of inventive techniques with an ever-expanding array of nontraditional mark making tools achieving everything from broad gritty marks to the finest of sensual strokes. Mann paints with confidence and flair. He addresses complex compositions with a mature eye and his colors are both vivid and atmospheric. He remains unlimited in his creative approach involving a myriad of materials and mediums including analogue photography from homemade cameras, film making and the written word. He currently resides in Catalunya with his wife.
Jeremy Mann likes to explore the balance between things that seem like opposites in life like life and death, beauty and sadness, love and anger. But to him, these aren’t really opposites at all. He sees them as different sides of the same thing. Take life and death: a dead tree becomes soil, and that soil gives life to something new. It’s all connected, and that sense of balance especially in nature is a big part of how they see the world and approach their art.
That idea of balance shows up in Jeremy’s work, even if not always in obvious ways. You might see bold, aggressive brushstrokes next to soft, gentle ones expressing big emotions like anger and tenderness in the same piece. He often uses landscapes to study color and form, which they then bring into their figure work. The female form is especially meaningful to him it represents both strength and delicacy, beauty and sadness, all at once. Capturing that complexity is part of what drives their creative process.
In earlier work, he explored cityscapes as a way to show stillness within chaos finding something beautiful in something that might otherwise feel overwhelming or even ugly. Cities, in their view, are a symbol of how humanity spreads and often overtakes nature. That contrast the tension between destruction and beauty is something they keep coming back to.
Even if not everything they think about comes through clearly in the artwork just yet, it’s all part of the journey. One day, they hope it will shine through more and more.
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