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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| The following was submitted in December of 2005 by the artist, who is the
founder of California Lawyers for the Arts and lives in Berkeley,
California.
I have a law degree from Yale and a PHD in sociology from the
University of Chicago but have painted all my life and finally turned
to it exclusively in 1970.
I was inspired by the late 19th and early 20th century painters whose
work I so frequently encountered in my visits as a child to The Art
Institute of Chicago. I was drawn to the richly subjective
realism of such diverse artistic sensibilities as Cezanne, Van Gogh,
Vuillard, Bonnard, Matisse, Homer and Eakens. I also felt a
strong connection with the Bay Area Figure Painters, Park, Diebenkorn
and Bischoff.
My autobiographical paintings explore a particular American time and
place using photographs and the filter of memory. The paintings
focus on the experience of growing up in Chicago in an upper middle
class Jewish milieu of the thirties and forties. They describe
interior domestic scenes, large family gatherings and celebrations,
vacations in Miami Beach and the Caribbean, and scenes in Chicago
restaurants and clubs. Although these canvasses are based on
black and white photographic images, I meant to capture more than a
mere likeness. I intended to convey what it felt like to be
present at that particular moment in time and place through a
spontaneous response to the subject matter in the visual language of
color, gesture and form.
I also love to paint out of doors, capturing the lineaments of real
landscape while letting broad painterly brushstrokes convey the emotion
of the moment. My use of color intensifies the experience of
springtime blossoms, for example, or the deep greens and blues of the
California coast, and the colors and shapes of city streets with their
unusual topography.
Over the years I have grown into yet a second series of landscapes done
in my studio. In these works I try to elicit the strength of colors and
shapes I often find in my plein air paintings in a more abstract
manner: they are my imaginary landscapes.
Exhibitons: (Updated May 2006):
L'Espace Commines, "Du Droit a l'Art," March 16, 2006
Galleries Sternberg, Chicago, IL, "The Chicago Connection," March-May 2006
Hearst Art Gallery at St. Mary’s College of California (Group Show "Artists Interpret The California Landscape") 2003
Smart Museum (Chicago, IL) Jerome Carlin Autobiographical Paintings (solo show) 1998
Kennedy Art Center at College of Holy Names (solo show of Imaginary Landscapes) 1996
Oakland Museum of California ("30+East Bay Painters") 1996
Kennedy Art Center at College of Holy Names (group show) 1991
Walnut Creek Civic Art Center (group show) 1982
Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco (solo show) 1977
College of Notre Dame (group show)
Weigand (group show)
Berkeley Art and Garden Center (3 person show) 1978
Art-Related Associations: Founder of California Lawyers For The Arts (1979)
PERIODICALS
1. San Francisco Chronicle "Boat Rocking Legal Unit: 1/19/70 (photo in painting studio)
2. Juris Doctor , June 1974 "Will Jerry Carlin Find True Happiness With Paint And Easel" p29
3. San Francisco Chronicle "Three Artists Worth A Closer Look" By Thomas Albright 3/18/78
4. Communiqué From The Chicago Medical School, Spring 1984
"Artist Carlin Depicts Milestones In UHS/CMS Development (Article and
Photo of a Mural History of the Chicago Medical School)
5. Art of California Magazine June/1993 "The Painted Memories of Jerome Carlin" by Nancy M. Boas (color plates)
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