Susan Whitney Gallery Presents - Jeff Nachtigall

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The Susan Whitney Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a one person exhibition "Mostly True Stories" by Jeff Nachtigall. The exhibition runs from February 21 to March 19, 2003. Jeff Helmut Nachtigall was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan in 1970. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Regina in 1993 where he studied printmaking and sculpture with Jack Cowin and Victor Cicansky. After one year in the Master Fine Arts program at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, Nachtigall moved to Calgary where he began to paint on salvaged materials and explore an automatic, intuitive style. He now makes Regina his home. He has an impressive resume for such a young artist listing exhibitions across Canada and the United States. Mostly True Stories is a series of acrylic paintings on lathe with a strong narrative element. The content of each painting is determined by the painting process. “Over the past few years I have developed an intuitive process that allows me to work in a stream of consciousness”. Popular culture plays an important role in the development of the subject matter. Animals and nature frequently appear. Nachtigall grew up with Saturday morning cartoons filled with talking animals. These new paintings deal with a method of mark making. The paint is applied directly from the tube and the mark that is left is somewhat awkward and messy. The surface of the lathe further impedes the painting process, allowing unconscious marks and mistakes to be made. Changes are made throughout the painting process, layers of paint applied, images and shapes are edited and the final product may turn out very different from how it began.