Artists: G - Z: Jacob Lunderby

My current body of work employs hybrid landscapes and images of junked cars as points of departure to investigate the visual, conceptual and linguistic interplay of psycho-geography and psycho-economics. The constructed environments and images of junked cars conceptually frame and navigate the influence on behavior and transitive emotion of processes of occupation, socialization and economic language, which I call “Sentimental Confidence.”

The foundation of these paintings is manipulated photographs of streets and structures as well as images culled from web searches. My paintings combine digitally manipulated images with aspects of abstract painting to compose multi-layered virtual spaces in which fragments, divergent perspectives, and formal devices converge. Through proliferating layers, the superimposition technique used in the landscape paintings tends toward a maximalist aesthetic. The half-tone paintings, on the other hand, operate on a graphic frequency and present images of junk cars as a trace or echo to the psycho-economic surplus of automobile culture.

By rerouting a surplus of our shared image economy as confronted by everyday reality, I aim to build work in response to the tension that arises from excesses of the image. I think of my work as a means to contemplate social forces and possible realities while engaging in the ongoing dialogue between painting and photography.

Jacob Lunderby received his MFA from the University of Minnesota and his BFA from Minneapolis College of Art & Design. His recent exhibitions are: Regis Center for the Arts, Minnesota, MN; Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA; ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) Philadelphia, PA; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN and more.