Jeff Stapleton’s paintings are visual explorations, informed by the digital realms we are exposed to and his personal experience of life. Color, texture, and organic forms are layered into a complex visual weave that hints at the underlying feelings and complexity of our lives. This new body of work almost entirely relies on the undertones of life, patterning and the symbolic and graphic design that defined his earlier work. In a recent interview Jeff explains, “It’s the the feeling I am interested in rather than the technical accuracy of the digital order of process and applications. It is deliberately open ended, more emotional for this very reason. I want it to be reinterpreted, incorporated into the experiences and personal stories of others.” The actual process of combining the digital foundation, applied with color and the artist's hand-texture he uses in the creation of his art also informs the content and final outcome of the work. The delicate balance and juxtaposition of opposites, whether blatant or subliminal, are poignantly presented in all of Stapleton’s artwork. The paradox of digital versus hand assembled, notions of risk, fear, and hidden interpretations all coexist within a veil of optimism and hopefulness that lives within Jeff’s art.
Graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design, 1982
1984-2017 President/Owner of Graphica, design firm
2014 Group exhibition, Stray Light, Dayton, OH
2014 ADC Blink publication
2015 Zero Gravity Gallery, Dayton, OH
2015 Meadowlarks, Dayton, OH
2015 DVAC, Members Show Exhibition
2016 Art Design Consultants/Art Comes Alive
(Figure Artist of the Year)
2016 Color of Energy Gallery, Dayton, OH
2017 Raquet Club, Dayton, OH
2017 Artery Gallery, Dayton, OH
2018 Sweet-Art Soiree at Monument Park
2018 Front Street Gallery, Dayton, OH
2019 Front Street Gallery, Dayton, OH
2020 Table 33, Dayton, OH