{"id":6665,"date":"2012-11-26T13:49:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T12:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=6665"},"modified":"2012-11-26T13:49:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T12:49:59","slug":"nick-jeffrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/nick-jeffrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Jeffrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6672\" title=\"Nick Jeffrey. Photo by \u00a9Maxime Ballesteros for Sleek\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Nick.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/> Nick Jeffrey. Photo by \u00a9Maxime Ballesteros for Sleek<\/p>\n<p>Throwing paint around and listening to music in his studio, young British-born Nick Jeffrey is an artist who doesn\u2019t like to keep things too rigid. But his omnifarious approach always leads back to painting, as he explains: \u201cThe borders between genres have always, and are increasingly, becoming more blurred\u2026 painting has that real immediate nature\u201d. Currently working on the \u201cloose and free\u201d material of semi-transparent polyester, Jeffrey is making what he calls \u201cambient and open\u201d paintings that appear mellow in their ethereal tranquillity; punctuated colour blocks with indistinct forms, such as those seen in his recent Hannah Barry exhibition, \u201cYouth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A hands-on artist whose engagement with process and texture infatuates him more than the cerebral meanderings of many of his generation, he explains that he is now \u201cdrifting towards work with an immediacy which hasn\u2019t been overworked and has a simplicity about it\u2026 as the old saying goes, less is more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey originally moved to Berlin just under three years ago, then returned after completing an MA at the Royal College of Art in London. \u201cBerlin seems to be one of the most transitional cities in Europe\u2026 it\u2019s a bit like a chameleon, constantly shape-shifting\u201d. Working from a studio in Prenzlauer Berg, his preoccupation with surface and texture makes the dilapidated Berlin-interior-wall effect the perfect surrounding to his practice.<\/p>\n<p>Influenced by Lawrence Weiner\u2019s spray paintings and bleach series in which the artist would go to the houses of collectors or galleries and institutions and pour bleach on the carpet, Jeffrey\u2019s artistic style as well as his character are somewhat anarchic. His exhibitions are often accompanied by a performative element (for a show in Italy he filled the gallery with so much smoke that people thought it was on fire, and Stan from the band Hounds Of Hate played alongside his work at his degree show) which adds to the fresh air of irreverence he offers to a medium repeatedly described as dead by critics and artists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text von Susanna Davies-Crook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickjeffrey.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.nickjeffrey.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Jeffrey. Photo by \u00a9Maxime Ballesteros for Sleek Throwing paint around and listening to music in his studio, young British-born Nick Jeffrey is an artist who doesn\u2019t like to keep things too rigid. 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