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USA
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"My motivation for creating is for spiritual therapy
- to escape the negative pressures of life.
"I want everyone who views my work to have
the feeling they've been there and understands
the spirituality behind it... and, hopefully, I will have
transformed their feelings from dark to light."
- to escape the negative pressures of life.
"I want everyone who views my work to have
the feeling they've been there and understands
the spirituality behind it... and, hopefully, I will have
transformed their feelings from dark to light."
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Jo Alice Braswell is a multi-talented professional artist.
She's not only a musician; plays piano, harmonicas, percussion, and sings - but loves to paint.
"Painting is like music," Jo says, "the medium allows stories and spirit to dance on paper or canvas where colors and shapes come alive."
"I love to work in watercolors, where less is more, as in music", says Jo. "However, acrylic can be just as challenging because it has the qualities of watercolor and oil when its density is changed."
When it comes to painting, Jo readily admits "Music sometimes takes priority over my painting". That's understandable when one learns she has toured Europe, Africa, and the United States with some of the world's greatest jazz musicians, recorded over a dozen albums and CDs, and continues to make a good living playing her folk rock music (with a twist of latin-jazz) in local venues in Southern California.
Jo's background to the arts began with a brief introduction to art at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1969. Shortly after she was invited to Holland to attend the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and lived for 10 years.
Her biggest influences in painting have come as a result of her involvement with an artists' co-op in Southern California called Artist Co-Op7 where she began in 1990 and sold her first painting to another art student who shared similar spiritual beliefs. She's since had her work exhibited seven months of every year locally in many fine restaurants, banks, book stores and galleries in the Los Angeles, California area.
Jo also acts as a liaison for Artists Co-op7 and every 8 weeks to 6 months she changes two exhibits: one at "Fab's" Restaurant in Sherman Oaks, California, and another at Post Logic Post Production Studios in Hollywood, California.
Another important part of Jo's life is the spiritual world. "My reason for creating anything is for spiritual therapy. It's my way", she explains, "of escaping the negative pressures of everyday life. I pray before and during any painting or performing music."
Some collectors of her artwork living in New York feel an affinity with the spiritual process that's transmitted through her work. Jo hopes viewers will use it for spiritual meditation as she does during the creative process of each piece. She says it's her intent that "every viewer of her work experience their own level or dimension of spirituality".
At the end of our interview, Jo told us about a dream she once had: "I dreamed Surrealist Salvador Dali showed up while I was beginning a painting and I asked him what I should do first - the foreground or the background. He proceeded to demonstrate by showing me a small portion of "The Ecumenical". I am still working toward the gift he gave me."
She's not only a musician; plays piano, harmonicas, percussion, and sings - but loves to paint.
"Painting is like music," Jo says, "the medium allows stories and spirit to dance on paper or canvas where colors and shapes come alive."
"I love to work in watercolors, where less is more, as in music", says Jo. "However, acrylic can be just as challenging because it has the qualities of watercolor and oil when its density is changed."
When it comes to painting, Jo readily admits "Music sometimes takes priority over my painting". That's understandable when one learns she has toured Europe, Africa, and the United States with some of the world's greatest jazz musicians, recorded over a dozen albums and CDs, and continues to make a good living playing her folk rock music (with a twist of latin-jazz) in local venues in Southern California.
Jo's background to the arts began with a brief introduction to art at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1969. Shortly after she was invited to Holland to attend the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and lived for 10 years.
Her biggest influences in painting have come as a result of her involvement with an artists' co-op in Southern California called Artist Co-Op7 where she began in 1990 and sold her first painting to another art student who shared similar spiritual beliefs. She's since had her work exhibited seven months of every year locally in many fine restaurants, banks, book stores and galleries in the Los Angeles, California area.
Jo also acts as a liaison for Artists Co-op7 and every 8 weeks to 6 months she changes two exhibits: one at "Fab's" Restaurant in Sherman Oaks, California, and another at Post Logic Post Production Studios in Hollywood, California.
Another important part of Jo's life is the spiritual world. "My reason for creating anything is for spiritual therapy. It's my way", she explains, "of escaping the negative pressures of everyday life. I pray before and during any painting or performing music."
Some collectors of her artwork living in New York feel an affinity with the spiritual process that's transmitted through her work. Jo hopes viewers will use it for spiritual meditation as she does during the creative process of each piece. She says it's her intent that "every viewer of her work experience their own level or dimension of spirituality".
At the end of our interview, Jo told us about a dream she once had: "I dreamed Surrealist Salvador Dali showed up while I was beginning a painting and I asked him what I should do first - the foreground or the background. He proceeded to demonstrate by showing me a small portion of "The Ecumenical". I am still working toward the gift he gave me."
CURRENT & UPCOMING EVENTS:More Coming Soon!
EXHIBITIONS:2002 - "Buildings & Freeways Abstracts", "Treble & Bass" series, Fab's Italian
Kitchen, Sherman Oaks, CA 2002 - "This Land Of Ours Exhibit", VIVA Gallery, Reseda, CA 2001 - "Being Human" Group Exhibition, VIVA Gallery,
Northridge, CA 2001 - "Summertime Blues, Reds and Yellows", Group Exhibition, VIVA Gallery,
Northridge, CA 2001 - Passport Café, Wilshire Federal Building, Westwood, CA 2001 - Toto Di Notte, Encino, CA American Association of University Women Creative Art Expose Chao Praya, Hollywood, California Color Graphics, Los Angeles, California Emerson's Gallery, Sherman Oaks, California Fab's Restaurant, Sherman Oaks, California Holly Street Bar and Grill, Pasadena, California Horseshoe Gallery, Sherman Oaks, California Koutoubia, Westwood, California Le Cafe, Sherman Oaks, California Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery, Van Nuys, California Misto's in Loz Feliz, Los Angeles, California Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, California Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, California Pierce College Gallery in Collaboration with the Valley Symphony Orchestra,
Woodland Hills, California Plaza D'Oro Group Gallery, Encino, California Post Logic Post Production Studios, Hollywood, California Sumitomo Bank, Sherman Oaks, California Tartine, Encino, California The Frances Blend School, Hollywood, California The Psychology Building, Westwood, California The Wilshire Federal Building, Westwood, California Viva Gallery, Northridge, California Woodland Hills Hyatt Gallery, Woodland Hills, California
SPECIAL RECOGNITION:A painting by Jo Alice graces the cover of a 2002 book of poetry,
"A Footprint in the Sands of Time", written by Robert Boehm with
the forward by Ossie Davis
AWARDS:1994 - Scholarship Award, The Valley Watercolor Society
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EXHIBITIONS:
Kitchen, Sherman Oaks, CA
Northridge, CA
Northridge, CA
Woodland Hills, California
SPECIAL RECOGNITION:
"A Footprint in the Sands of Time", written by Robert Boehm with
the forward by Ossie Davis
AWARDS:
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