Jesse Waugh

Jesse Waugh
Born (1974-05-06) May 6, 1974
Berkeley, California, USA
Nationality American
Education Los Angeles City College
San Francisco State University
University of Brighton
Known for painting
photography
videography
Website http://www.jessewaugh.com

Jesse Waugh (1974) is an American artist known for painting, film, writing, music and his podcast Jesse Waugh Radio. His work has been exhibited at the LA Freewaves Festival as well as on the BBC Two series Rocket Science, on the National Geographic Channel, and in books and educational materials.

Biography

Waugh was born in Berkeley, California on May 6, 1974.[1] Beginning in the early 1990s, he studied at Los Angeles City College, Pasadena City College, East Los Angeles College, and City College of San Francisco, eventually earning an associate degree. During this period, Waugh began working with various media and art combinations. His film El Angel, shot in the form of an old silent film, chronicles the birth, climax and death of Los Angeles, commenting on how greed corrupts art and commerce;[2] the film was exhibited at the Fifth L.A. Freewaves Festival in 1997 (which was held at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art).[2] After graduating from San Francisco State University (and earning a Bachelor of Arts degree) in 2000,[3] and subsequently spending some time in Europe, Waugh returned to the US.[4]

Waugh's short films and physical works have been used to illustrate a number of educational projects. He created artistic prisms which appeared as educational material on the BBC documentary Rocket Science in 2009.[5] In 2012, video he shot of the Amazon rainforest was used in Episode 1 of the National Geographic Channel show Access 360° World Heritage.[6] One of his paintings, a reworking of a Martin Johnson Heade painting, was used as the cover for the book The Rise and Fall of the Trevor Whitney Gallery by Lauren Rabb.[7] Waugh earned a Master of Arts degree in Fine Arts from the University of Brighton in 2015,[8] and took part in the school's MA exhibition.[9]

Waugh's book Jesse Waugh: Portrait of an Artist and His Strivings for Pulchrism is archived in the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art[10] and the San Diego Museum of Art.[11]

Conceptual style

Waugh champions the Latinate term "pulchrism" (which he discovered while reading The Athenaeum[12] and journals of John Barton[13]) as an artistic theory that idealizes beauty as the purpose of art.[14] He also uses it to describe his own work. Pulchrism, as Waugh describes it, contrasts with the stuckism movement and the celebration of ugliness which he claims took place in Modernism.[15]

Exhibitions

Film

Visual Art

References

  1. ↑ "Life and Career". jessewaugh.com. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 James, David E. (2003). The Sons and Daughters of Los: Culture and Community in L. A. Temple University Press. pp. 181–82. ISBN 9781592130122.
  3. ↑ "Transcript of Record". San Francisco State University. August 24, 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Kaplan, Ben (January 2002). "Each of These Men Has a Secret". Marie Claire.
  5. ↑ "Episode One". Rocket Science (BBC Two). 6 March 2009.
  6. ↑ "The Amazon (Episode 1)". Access 360 World Heritage (National Geographic Channel). September 22, 2012.
  7. ↑ Rabb, Lauren Walden (November 2, 2014). The Rise and Fall of the Trevor Whitney Gallery. Rabb Art Consulting. pp. copyright page. ISBN 0990552012.
  8. ↑ "JESSE WAUGH MA FINE ART DEGREE". University of Brighton. 18 September 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Exhibition Flier". MA Fine Art Show 2015 (University Of Brighton). 2015.
  10. ↑ "catalog". Thomas J. Watson Library. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  11. ↑ "record detail". San Diego Museum of Art library. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  12. ↑ "Reviews: Lectures on Sculpture". The Athenaeum (British Periodicals Limited) (585): 20. 1839.
  13. ↑ Barton, John (July 30, 1819). "Effect of Paper Currency on Population". John Barton Senior Journals 3.
  14. ↑ Waugh, Jesse. "Pulchrism: Discovery of a Lost Romantic Word". jessewaugh.com. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  15. ↑ Waugh, Jesse. "The Pulchrist Manifesto". jessewaugh.com. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  16. ↑ "2008 Pill Awards Broadcast". New York: ADD-TV. January 27, 2008.
  17. ↑ Waugh, Jesse. "EXHIBITION". Documentary Film.
  18. ↑ "Posthumous Exhibition Poster". University Of Brighton. 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  19. ↑ "Unsere Künstler" (in German). Ingeborg Verlag. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  20. ↑ "Brighton MA Exhibition 2015". Artelogical. July 5, 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2016.

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