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Art of Duane Kirby Jensen

Artist directory :: Art of Duane Kirby Jensen

Rememberances with in a kaleidoscope room. ©2024, By Duane Kirby Jensen 9 x 12 watercolor, ink, and pen on watercolor paper

Rememberances with in a kaleidoscope room.

2024 Gallery

A Return to my Kohaku Series. The idea for the Kohaku begun in January 2013 while sitting with my friend, the poet Jack McCarthy while he was on his death bed. One of the things we talked about was eastern philosophy. I mentioned I was fascinated by the use of red and white in Japanese architecture.

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Duane Kirby Jensen 
Duane Kirby Jensen is a painter and a poet. He has exhibited and performed since 1989 throughout the Pacific Northwest at numerous venues. He has been called an ‘outsider artist.’ In the early 2000’s, he felt his art had stagnated. Its existence created a wall that inhibited him to pursue other artistic ideas. He wanted to recapture his passion for painting. This sense of suffocation led him to burn the majority of his work. The few pieces that escaped the flames was due to oversight. This extremism rekindled his love and dedication to paint, allowing him to follow a wider variety of ideas. In 2014 he had an exhibition entitled, Eight Years After the Flames: A Retrospective of Works from 2006-2014. Three weeks after the opening, he was asked to remove a...

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2632 Rucker Ave Apt 35
Everett, WA 98201
United States

Galleries

Poetry and poetry Books by Duane Kirby Jensen Welcome to the Poetry of Duane Kirby Jensen. Here you can read a sampling of my poetry and or order one of my chapbooks. Enjoy,
2023 Gallery Works done in 2023. These will include ink, watercolor and acrylic works on yupo medium, watercolor paper, board, and claybord. There may also be some pen sketches.
2022 Gallery This gallery contains all works created during 2022. **Please note: All paintings are sold unframed. The artist retains reproduction rights on all paintings/sketches/images created purchased and purchased. --- All Paintings in this album ©2022 By Duane Kirby Jensen .
2021 Gallery Paintings / Sketches Welcome to my 20211 Gallery. 2020 was a productive year, even with all the craziness going on. I was able to complete around 350 paintings and sketches.
2020 Gallery of Paintings and Sketches This gallery contains all works created during 2020. **Please note: All paintings are sold unframed. The artist retains reproduction rights on all paintings/sketches/images created purchased and purchased. --- All Paintings in this album ©2020 By Duane Kirby Jensen .
2019 Gallery This gallery contains all works created during 2019. **Please note: All paintings are sold unframed. The artist retains reproduction rights on all paintings/sketches/images created purchased and purchased. --- All Paintings in this album ©2019 By Duane Kirby Jensen .
2018 Gallery 1.15.18: Welcome to 2018. I am start this year on a roll and that momentum has not slowed. This year I am back painting moments as reflected in faces.
2017 Gallery 2017 was an frustrating year creatively. Due to an injured hand, I was unable to hold a brush for most of the first have of the year. Then off and on for another three months. Paintings kept dancing in my head demanding to be painted.
2016 Gallery I have met 2016 with a creative rush. Working small, working loose, working with quicker/choppier brush strokes and working with more greens, blues, and whites and no reds (In most of the new paintings). My thanks to everyone for their continued support, with a special acknowledgement to ZO Magazine - Thank you. Please note: All paintings are sold unframed. The artist retains reproduction rights on all paintings/sketches/images created purchased and purchased.
2015 Gallery In 2015 I added a few paintings to the Kohaku, Forgotten God Series and Edison's Children series. -- A new series, Tokens of Tactile Memories, came, almost out of nowhere. With this series I give renewed life to objects around me.
2014 Gallery This year started off fast in terms of paintings, then things slowed down due to working on a few commissions, dislocating/straining my thumb on my painting hand, intensive writing ) short stories and poems) and putting together a large exhibit for a show in Bellingham. -- --- SERIES I --- "Old Gods and Totems" I closed the old year and have begun 2014 with an exploration of totems, worshipers, and gods. ---Series III --- Book cover for Larry Crist . This is a series of studies I did for a...
2013 Gallery People ask, "What are the ideas that lay behind my Kohaku series?" Kohaku is both a new series and a new phase of artistic exploration. I started the first sketch as I sat with my friend Jack McCarthy, on Tuesday January 15th. (Jack would pass two days later).
2012 Gallery A significant portion of the paintings in 2012 were for the launch of my Disintegration of Identity series. Please note: All paintings are sold unframed. The artist retains reproduction rights on all paintings/sketches/images created purchased and purchased. --- All Paintings in this album ©2015 By Duane Kirby Jensen .
2011 Gallery The last half of 2010 witnesses the deconstruction of my work. Meaning that instead a painting with a large narrative scope, I began to focus on aspects of the whole. Views of feet to wast; crowds consisting of heads and hats or simply midsections.
2010 Gallery What become apparent during the first few months of 2010, my whimsical side surged to the forefront. I continued to explore a narrative line, but with quirky twist. To use a literary term, many of these paintings explored the realm of magical realism. Duane Kirby Jensen --- Please note: All paintings are sold unframed, unless otherwise noted.
2009 Gallery 2009: The Large and Small of it. I love the challenge of painting within a smaller format, while retaining the intensity found in larger work. I came across 5 x 7 Claybord panels, at Daniel Smith art supply, and quickly became intrigued by their possibilities. This resulted in a series of intense close-ups.
2008 Gallery 2008 was dominated by six distinctly different themes: The Conversation: A focused on women grouped together in non-verbal dialogue. This underlines my interest in social isolation. Blue Room Mediations was an exploration of the human form and movement. For this I used my friend Debora as the model.
2007 Gallery 2007: The further exploration of the beauty of loss and longing. The driving theme of my work is the narrative exploration identity and isolation and how each individual choses to move through life. Capturing the Indvidual in an unguarded moment when they engage themselves with internal dialogue. A subcategory that emerged in 2007 was my Smoking Series. This series reflects my love affair with Film Noir.
2006 Gallery 2006: A New Artist Chapter In the early 2000’s, he felt my art had stagnated. Its existence created a wall that inhibited my ability to pursue other artistic ideas. I wanted to recapture my passion for painting.
2010-2011: Manikin dreams and despair The nature of being human Manikin Dreams: What is it to be human? Is it to be more then flesh and bone? More then red liquid pumping through veins? Is it thought, laughter, the ability to love, to sing, to dance, to dream? Or is it empathy: to feel the joy and sorrow of others? Is it the willingness to shed water, to sacrifice ones own flesh? Is it the ability to question? How can a disassembled mannikin ever dare to think, to breathe, to dream of of nimble movement, to gaze into the eternal silence and...
'The fragility of identity within the city.'  This page gives you a peek inside my creative process. These sketches are ideas for a new series I am playing with in conjunction to an upcoming exhibit in may, entitled: Conversations within the Landscape of Emotion. With these sketches I am playing with space, atmosphere and the narrative line I want the eventual paintings to evoke. -Enjoy.
Faces: A Sketchbook Faces: A Sketchbook ©2010 by Duane Kirby Jensen, 5 x 8 ¼mixed media on paper The past six years have seen my do around five hundred paintings. During that time most of my sketch work goes unseen, as its the base of the paintings themselves. At the beginning of 2010 I found myself missing doing sketches for the sake of simply sketching.
Whispered Lands Sketchbook Whispered Lands Sketchbook ©2010 by Duane Kirby Jensen, 5 x 8 ¼graphite &pen on paper. The past six years have seen my do around five hundred paintings. During that time most of my sketch work goes unseen, as its the base of the paintings themselves.

Blog

Pod Cast from my Featured Reading at Bellingham's PoetryNighty
http://blog.poetrynight.org/post/115108664571/3-30-15-duane-kirby-jensen-carved-a-religion-from

2013 Art Awards: Everett honors local artists, educators and art
2013 Art Awards Everett honors local artists, educators and arts supporters Award ceremony to be held Nov. 21 Mayor Ray Stephanson will honor the award recipients of the 2013 Richard Wendt Award and Mayor’s Arts Awards during a celebration at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov.

Asked and Answered: Questions from ArtHASH:
Asked and Answered: Questions from ArtHASH: A Pulse on the Art Beat. Visit ArtHASH at: http://arthash.blogspot.com/ ( 8.26.10) As artists, we are often inspired by the world around us-- but there are times we also need a nudge. I was curious as to substances that enhance the creative process.

My Artistic Process
Note: This was written in July 2007. My Artistic Process By Duane Kirby Jensen As An Artist… I am the voyeur who captures people's inner moments, those quiet times when they do not believe that anyone is watching. I strip away the mask to see their inner soul.

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