At the bottom of this page, is a list of galleries. You may find one in your area to call for availability and a showing of Jerry's sculpture.
The pictures below represent some of Jerry Joslin's sculpture. Very prolific, Jerry has over 100 limited editions.
Click on thumbnails to see the full screen picture.
Newer Editions & Work in Progress
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Sample of Jerry's work currently being shown in fine art galleries
(Please call galleries for a showing and piece availability)
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Jerry Joslin's Trans-Dimensional Sculpture
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Through the use of folded two-dimensional surfaces Joslin has created provocative background metaphors. The two dimensional surfaces then extrude into seemingly three-dimensional forms. This trans-dimensionalism creates mysterious tapestries, rich in compelling imagery, leaving more to the imagination then straightforward representation.
These Trans-Dimensional sculptures are different from 'reliefs' because they are not fore-shortened. Joslin intends them to be free standing, their reverse sides suggesting a primitive 'rawness'. Any two-dimensional backdrop he creates may suggest an allegory or intangibility, such as 'life-force,' fate, spirituality, harmonic rhythm, etc...
The reverse side or 'back' of his trans-dimensional sculpture represents the amorphous void, the imponderable nothingness from which everything emerges. The sculpture is then seen to resolve itself, metaphysically, into a higher form of art.
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Jerry Joslin is a modern master of representational figurative sculpture. It is his chosen discipline because it offers the greatest challenge "...to express my deepest feelings, intuition, inspiration and perception, all in terms that others can understand and appreciate... The human figure is undeniably the touchstone to art in any era."
His sculpture is imbued with a lyrical romance that carries the traditions of the old European masters onward into the new millennia with a fresh contemporary narrative. Look closely at Joslin's work and you see more than figurative interplay with precise execution. Implicit in each sculpture is a personal communication that exposes the intellect of this artist. His designs exude the tension and release that animate his composition.
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John Guernsey, an Oregon journalist described Joslin as "...a man who dreams many dreams and then makes them come true."
Born in Portland, Oregon in 1942, graduated from Portland State College in 1966, Joslin spent a restless decade studying various art forms while serving as Captain aboard the U.S.G.S. research vessel Polaris, then cruised throughout the South Pacific on his own sailboat and lived with the natives in the Tuamotos and Marquesas.
In 1979 Joslin was riveted by the passion that would shape his future. He became a student of sculpture. Working in stone, wax, and clay, he studied throughout the length and breadth of Europe and with characteristic self-discipline became the master sculptor he is today. Jerry Joslin owes no allegiance to any school but has drunk deep from life's experience and masterfully sculpts his unique personal images into immutable statements.
Attesting to his pre-eminence among contemporary figurative sculptors, Joslin's impressive body of work, created over the last quarter century, is represented in many museum, public and private collections around the world.
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Sergei Joslin
first solo work
"Wrapped in Motion"
Jerry Joslin's son, Sergei Joslin, worked closely with Jerry as an understudy for 17 years. Sergei is now continuing the Joslin legacy by casting his own work and finishing the works in progress that the Master has left unfinished.
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A List of Galleries that show our work:
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Arizona:
– SR Brennen Galleries • 7150 East Main St. • Scottsdale • Az • 85251 • Ph# 480-994-1355
– Visions Gallery • 101North Hwy.89A Suite E-24 • Sedona • Az • 86336 • Ph# 1-877-303-0022
California:
– Art & Frame by Wood Gallery • 936 Orange Avenue • Coronado • Ca • 92118• Ph# 619- 435-5212
– Gallerie Amsterdam • Dolores between 5th & 6th • PO Box 6612 • Carmel • Ca • 93921 • Ph# 831-624- 4355
– James Harold Galleries • PO Box 6990 • Tahoe City • Ca • 96145 • Ph# 530-581-5111
– SR Brennen Gallery • 73080 El Paseo • Palm Desert • Ca • 92260 • Ph# 760-773-9554
– Whitt / Krauss Gallery • 839 West Harbor Dr. Suite 2 Sea Port Village • San Diego • Ca • 92101 • Ph# 619-232-2152
Florida:
– Art at the Plaza • 100 Indian Locks Road North • Belleair Bluffs, Largo • Fl • 33770 • Ph# 727-559-7767
Hawaii:
– Genesis Gallery • 250 Waikoloa Beach Drive. #A-1 • Waikoloa, (Kona) • Hi • 96738 • Ph# 808-886-7770
Indiana:
– Soori Gallery • 258 W Main st • Carmel • In • 46032 • Ph# 317-843-2787
Nevada:
– Art Vignettes • 1714 West Horizon Ridge Pkwy at Valle Verde • Henderson • Nv • 89012 • Ph# 702-851-2020
Oregon:
– Valley Bronze Gallery • 1198 Commercial St • Astoria • Or • 97103 • Ph# 503-325-3076 • 800-559-2118
– Wood Gallery • 818 S.W. Bay Boulevard • Newport • Or • 97365-4838 • Ph# 1-800-359-1419
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Why Do We Have A Floating Studio?
Over the years I have owned many boats, all of them sailboats. They have afforded me a refuge from the conventional life. More then that, they foster that all too elusive indulgence in the romantic ideal as coined by the saying. “the Captain of my own Fate and Master of my Sole”. It's a place that gives me time for introspective thought, a source for creative input. Few moments spent in my life have ever been so rewarding, as the time I have spent on the water. How often do we truly get swept away chasing a real adventure that lies between the scudding ragged clouds and a high tossed sea, seeking the ineffable beyond an elusive horizon. Its heady stuff and fertile ground for inspiration. The Muse, fickle as the air, and radiant as a seas smoky sunrise, sketch their designs upon the whispy clouds and the sensuous swirls of current and wave. At sea, ideas flood my mind which are readily rendered to clay and hence to durable bronze art.
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| Joslin Studio • 17833 Marylcreek Dr • Lake Oswego, Oregon 97034 • USA • Telephone 503-307-3980 (sergei's home & fax) 503-699-7732 |
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| ©1984 - 2002 Jerry Joslin - all artwork is protected by Pan American and International copyright laws. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of the artist is prohibited. |
