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Ted Washington has lived in the San Diego area since March 1987, after spending time as an apprentice draftsman for a beer brewery in St. Louis, an Internal Revenue Service employee in Springfield, MO, a retail sales representative in Denver, CO, and temporarily homeless vagabond turned baker on the beaches of Venice, CA.
Artist Statement:
The search for order in this chaos. Art. Life. I was hoping to draw pretty pictures but something happens. I get carried away. Dots take time, time for my mind to get away from all of this. The pretty pictures get lost in there and this art is what remains. Unfortunately (or fortunately) there is always an alpha for every omega; more ink, more paper and more time. The chaos takes me. Order is for the end.
You probably don't want to hear some metaphysical bullshit. You want to hear, "Why dots?" That I was homeless and how only the pens survived the spiral of drugs, booze and women. And how drugs, booze and women funded and fueled the art.
You probably want to hear about technical challenges; of finding proper gradation in the pen sizes. How I pursued achieving depth in the darkest regions, using the negative space in the foreground and background, using texture to convey the image.
About studying Cezanne, Schielle, Adams, Close for the roadmap to the figurative and away. How philosophy, meditation and music have taken me further.
The reality of it is, if I live the art will be the reason. Journeys through chaos to order.
Ted Washington also founded Puna Press Publication in 1995 and is in the local San Diego Band Priutt-Igoe. Here are some of the many other accomplishments of Ted Washington.
AWARDS
Purchase Award, BRAND 37, Works on Paper: Here & Now, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA 2008
Pruitt Igoe receives Synergy Art Foundation Grant, 2006
First place, Mixed Media, 5th Annual Fun with Chalk Street Painting and Fine Art Festival, Mission Viejo, CA 2003
Best of Show, 20th La Quinta Arts Festival, La Quinta Arts Foundation, La Quinta, CA 2002
Most Promising New Artist, 20th La Quinta Arts Festival, La Quinta Arts Foundation, La Quinta, CA 2002
Airfloat Merit Award, 22nd National Juried Art Show, New Orleans Art Association, New Orleans, LA 2002
First Place, Twelfth Annual Juried Competition, Veridian Gallery, New York, NY 2001
Award of Excellence, 13th International Open Exhibition, Sacramento Fines Arts Center Inc., Carmichael, CA 2001
SOHO International Art Competition, Agora Gallery, New York, NY 2000
Artists of the New Millennium Illustration Contest, Strathmore Artist Products 2000
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