Bio
Jamin is an artist, writer, and performer. He was raised all over the place, used to performed Shakespeare, and has a passion for abstract art and independent music. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts at the University of Texas at Tyler, specializing in ceramics and sculpture. He is currently in pursuit of his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Iowa. Jamin has exhibited regionally and nationally, most notably two appearances in the NCECA National Juried Student Exhibition. His wife, Lilah Shepherd, is also an artist and Jamin's favorite person in the world. They currently live and work in Iowa City, IA with their two cats, Scout and Elliott.
Artist Statement
I imagine color, shape, surface, form and pattern as elements in development of a visual language with which diverse narrative and poetic revelations can present themselves. Shapes and colors are suggesting and creating relationships, but those exist most purely before language. I try to compose with a collaboration between this sensitivity and expressive, intuitive collaboration between the mediums and myself. The connections, ideas, associations, narratives, etc. do manifest in the work but at the intersection of the boundless territory of mystery and imagination and the confines of language and structure.
