Arts
Cypress Gallery holds new solo show, Pouring My Heart Out
One of Lompoc artist Christine Jeszeck’s unfinished paintings was shelved for at least a year before she decided to revisit the piece, now set to be displayed in its completed form at Cypress Gallery in early May. The project began as one of Jeszeck’s acrylic pours, an art form she usually approaches in one of two ways—either she’ll use the finished work as is, or she’ll incorporate it into another work. Her pours that don’t result in pure abstracts are often set aside temporarily to serve as surreal backdrops for subjects she decides to paint at a later time. “I knew the pour would serve as a beautiful background for something, but until I came across a beautiful photo reference … it sat waiting,” Jeszeck said of Tiger, Tiger, a realistic profile of a tiger she painted over “an acrylic pour I had laying around for a year or more.” Just prior to starting work on her tiger, inspired by a photograph by Denise McQuillan, Jeszeck had to subtly modify the original pour a bit, she explained...
