Contact Info:
Jacqueline Eihausen
702-524-9703, text or phone
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--I have created images for as long as I can remember—probably like many artmakers.
--I have long been drawn to the human subject. In childhood my younger brothers often got stuck being models. I have always returned to the figure. The last several years with the Plein Air Painters of Nebraska and Iowa, I’ve swung more heavily into landscape and plantlife.
--A Notre Dame nun, my biology teacher who gave art lessons after school, started me in on oils. Later at Seattle’s Cornish Art School another favorite teacher introduced me to acrylics, which dry so much more quickly—for me, an advantage.
--Given enough time, I’ve veered into visual storytelling. When I read, I love novels, and when I paint, I seem to paint stories, vignettes that act to tell a story, a POV. The works of Remedios Varo, the Spanish Surrealist, are to me, stunning.
--By the time I stopped making art to begin teacher training (’02) I was combining collage with acrylic. Romare Beardon has been a beloved influence. Since retiring in ‘12 I’ve again picked up this exploration. I began using Nat’l Geographic only (“good paper, arresting images, endless pattern”) and have now expanded to other magazines and patterned papers. I began using only the color, texture, and pattern of the collaged pages, their abstract qualities, but now find I weave in pictures of trees, houses, autos. I like the work to invite the viewer to look closely to see where the painting leaves off and the collage begins—a marriage of parts.
--The words: I began adding painted words to my pictures in the ‘90‘s. Since returning to Omaha (’17), I switched to the “ransom note” style of including words, an extension I think, of the “more-collage-more-of-the-time” nature of the images.
--I am primarily a 2D perceiver, but have been dragged (protesting and later thankful) into sculpture by 3D artists/friends. I participated in Omaha’s J DOE public art project in ’01, and
DOECELLI’S BIRTH OF VENUS is in the Founders’ Garden at Lauritzen.
