JJ Horner

JJ Horner born January 14, 1982, from Willmar, Minnesota is an American artist, who resides in Tempe, Arizona.
Life
Grandson to Hall of Fame broadcaster Jack Horner and nephew to Minnesota politician Tom Horner.
Career
In 2010 he created a Converse shoe insole for professional skateboarder Nick Trapasso and was listed as part of the Creatives, cultured superheroes of Metropolitan Phoenix.
In 2011 he was the featured artist for Insight team riders including Jamie Thomas. He threw a New Year's Eve party welcoming in 2012 with over 60 featured artists showing their artwork.
Bio
Horner has created a vast universe of personal symbols and archetypes that find their way to the surface of his paintings. Always beginning with free-form ideas, he visualizes elements (influenced by everything from conceptual art, skate culture, illustration, and family history) and puts them to canvas in a gesture reminiscent of surrealist automatic drawings. For his‘sectional’ pieces, he creates large painted studies that are then graphed out in alphanumeric order and ‘cut’ top to bottom, left to right on a grid. He works to ensure they do not resemble the original piece, that he opens himself to randomness, chance, the subconscious, where new layers of meaning emerge. Transforming one panel at a time, individual sections become both contained compositions and elements of a larger one. Once complete, he titles the piece based on thematic threads, or patterns, that have revealed themselves in the process. This interplay between structure and flow state, of finding resolution in shape, form, and thought, are a hallmark of Horner’s practice and body of work.

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