"Playtime" by Jesse Allan Rozell

Have you noticed the rotating art in the back bar area? Well, this Saturday it is changing again! We will be hosting an open house (complete with live DJ) with The Garfield Art Gallery to celebrate our newest artist, Jesse Allan Rozell, on Saturday, March 11th from 5-8 p.m.

Jesse Allan Rozell is a mixed-media artist and designer, working in Colorado. He earned his BA in graphic design from the University of Maryland, has no formal training in art, and considers himself an outsider artist. Rozell began exhibiting his work throughout Colorado’s Front Range in 2006 and has since exhibited many small collections in burgeoning venues. He continues to explore the human form, color, and the timelessness that is found in memories blurred between yesterday and tomorrow.

‘Playtime’ is an ongoing project which celebrates hedonism, vanity, memory, vibrancy, and chaos – an attractive and sometimes obscured, star-studded view into the men and women of yesterday. The sourced photos of Playboy and Playgirl’s models of the 1990s are meant to envelop the awareness of fleeting beauty, an experience shared by many when pining for one’s youth. The abstract manipulation of these images expresses varying degrees of one’s own togetherness and how it is perceived through physical appearance. ‘Playtime’ serves as a time capsule of exuberance that blends the body with disorder, color, and an occasional unclear form. We live in our skin as it fades with us.