Meet local painter, printer, jewelry maker, and teacher, Jeremy Yocum. Jeremy Yocum creates whimsical prints that are painterly and subtly abstracted that are laden with satire.
His work explores a variety of subjects highlighting his love of animation, humor, and pop culture.The painterly and subtly abstracted monoprints by Yocum, engages your senses with neon colors, bold lines, and humorous subjects. Jeremy says “I aim to make people laugh and smile with my art, a lot of people think that art should have a deep and intellectual meaning, but I create pieces that are humorous or simply aesthetically pleasing.”
Yocum enjoys taking his audience on a ride inside his whimsical, unique and sometimes weird world with a fresh perspective on printmaking, design, and painting. Working with bright colors and heavy lines he creates his work with a bit of humor or satire in mind such as with his great monoprint titled “Break Up Mix”. Currently the artist favors creating screen-printed monoprints that are bold, colorful, slightly abstracted and satirical. His latest work centers around two styles “the cartoonish character work like with Mummy…Mummy…Mummy and the more sketched, painterly subjects like with Wright?.”
He recently had a very busy fall season, exhibiting his artwork at several local galleries including the Olney Gallery at Trinity Cathedral this past September along side Manny Burruel. Followed by a well received group exhibition with Jon Arvizu and Scott Wolf at Willo North Gallery in October, debuting a fun series of cartoon people and skateboards. Finally he concluded the year with a fun show with Chuck Knapp at the Trunk Space in November. Be sure to check out his work at that is currently be exhibited at the Orange Table in Tempe. He is now back in his studio creating new prints in preparation for an upcoming exhibition this summer, more details to come. For more information about this great artist and his artwork Jeremy Yocum Website: http://thejeremyyocum.com. Images courtesy of the artist Jeremy Yocum.
