Lapis Room - Jared Putnam- "No. 59 Rollin' In (Anti-Matter)"
$2,250.00
acrylic + oil on panel
36 x 36"
About the Artist:
Born in New York City to MAD Magazine Art Director John Putnam and painter Jane Putnam, the artist has lived and worked in Albuquerque since 1990. A professional musician for over 25 years, he spent 19 of those with the gypsy jazz group Le Chat Lunatique and now performs with the instrumental trio The Chachalacas.
During the pandemic, he shifted focus to visual art, drawing inspiration from pencil sketches made on paper bags while working as a grocery store cashier and graphite drawings on graph paper at home. His work explores perspective, optical illusions, and spatial play through precise linework and rotational symmetry. In his paintings, these linear foundations evolve into studies of color, exploring how hue, value, and gradient influence perception of form and depth.
Each piece is meticulously constructed: a recreated grid, perspective lines drawn using string, masked sections filled with sponged acrylic, and oil-painted backgrounds that form smooth gradients. The paintings are executed on custom-built wood panels crafted with the same precision as the artwork itself.
"The inspiration for my paintings comes from a combination of geometric paintings and sculptures my father produced in the 1970s and a television show on PBS I watched as a child called “The Secret City” in which Mark Kistler taught kids how to draw in 3D.
In making these works, I find myself expanding on the art my father was creating in the late 1970s that he was sadly not able to continue due to his untimely death in 1980.”
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