Artist: Jamie Kovacs
Title: Witching Hour
Year created: 2018
Medium: Mixed Media on Prebuilt Framed Canvas
Height (inches): 36
Width (inches): 36
Depth (inches): 2
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: back
Description of piece:
The true Witching Hour is actually between 11:30pm-12:30am (with reference to the belief that witches are active and magic takes place at that time).11:30pm-11:59pm is to bring in good, 12am-12:30 is for dark workings. This piece involves numerous circles painted in the background and throughout the piece with the watch gears representing the circle of life and protection. The gears clearly go with the clock which is set to the time of the true Witching Hour.
Artist bio:
Jamie Kovacs is a passionate collage and mixed media artist, originally from Philadelphia. Inspired by her love of pop icons and the unique beauty she sees in everything, her highly textural abstract works often evoke the iconic joy brought to us by the cinema or musicians and sometimes just nature in general.
Kovacs has concentrated on pop art through collage. Her collages explore a unique technique of using hand ripped magazine paper and glue. "I absolutely love music and movies and comic books and well; anything geeky, so a lot of these pieces are based on musicians, actors, and iconic people. I continue to build my portfolio by working as large as I can and for as long as I can do it. I am constantly evolving these collages into different styles. Just recently my new style involves 3-D collage, which involves sculpting Styrofoam, and hand ripped recycled magazine paper. It is powerful at smaller sizes but when you get them really big, they will knock your socks off. I am the Andy Warhol of Collages making torn paper into a whole."
Her collages explore themes such as the symbolism and the significance of life and different belief systems. Her large-scale abstract works often include recycled reminders of her love and interests in bits of paper, or eco-friendly / organic materials such as feathers. Manipulating the texture with many layers of paint, she will work and re-work her canvases, layering, scraping, piling up textures to give added dimension, creating works that intrigue and invite the viewer in for closer inspection.
"Art is my life; it’s what I am good at. It is what I was born to do. People spend their lives asking, “why am I here?” Well here is my answer. I am here to create. Aristotle, in the first line of his treatise Nicomachean Ethics, argued that everything is to be done with a goal, and that goal is to do good. In other words, our highest and best use is to be an agent of good works in everything we do. Well my “good works”, is put simply; my creativity, my art. It is my drive, it is my passion, and it is my determination to succeed at my creativity so that I can pass on my creativity to others and enrich lives."