Parris Jaru

Gun Control - Surrealist Yellow and Black Painting of a Duck, Dog, and Gun

2019

Parris Jaru's I Swallowed a Gold Fish is a 9 x 12 inches surrealist oil painting representing a dog, a duck and a gun. The main colors are a bright orange, and green. The surface is ...

Parris Jaru's The Last Time I Saw It is a 16 x 11-inch surrealist oil painting. The primary colors are black and red. The canvas surface has a thick impasto of paint, made with plant-based pigments that Jaru collects during his long exploratory trips through India. The imagery brings a surrealist human figure, with all the body features exaggerated as if in a caricature. NY-born Parris Jaru comes from a Jamaican, Blackfoot Nation, and Arawak Nation background from both his parents. His work is informed by the vivid colors and imagery experienced in his childhood years spent in the coastal town of St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. His exploratory journeys in India enriched his work with a sensibility to natural plant-based pigments that he grinds with oils for his paintings. In his Brooklyn studio, Jaru brings all these cultural inspirations together. His entire body of work is informed by an intentional childlike, faux-naïve style, constantly shifting between figurative and abstraction. Even though at times, Jaru has been working on somber and entirely figure-free paintings, most of his work is defined by poignantly colored and playful surrealistic figures. Jaru often draws his figures with a continuous line emerging from a thick impasto of paint made with powders of Sea Algae, Hibiscus, Gymnema Sylvestre, and Turmeric. Related keywords: Caribbean Artist...

Parris Jaru's Octopus Huggs is a 8 x 9 inches surrealist oil painting. The main colors are blue and yellow. The artist created a surrealist representation of a human face defined by ...

Eclipse is a 56 x 72-inch surrealist figurative oil painting. It is signed in the front lower right corner. The primary colors are brown and blue. Silhouettes of nude female figures ...

Sophisticated Lady on a Walk is a 40 x 30-inch figurative surrealist oil painting on canvas. Red, white, and green are the primary colors. The paint...

Dialogue Within Oneself is a 46 x 36-inch abstract surrealist oil painting on canvas. The painting has a simple gallery display frame in natural wood with a black reveal. The primary...

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