Opening Reception: Jared Putnam: Trilateral Contrivances

Join Lapis Room for the opening reception of Trilateral Contrivances by Jared Putnam!

Jared Putnam was born in New York City to John Putnam – Art Director of MAD Magazine and Jane Putnam – Painter. He’s been living and working in Albuquerque as a professional musician for over 25 years playing with the gypsy jazz group, Le Chat Lunatique, and more recently with the instrumental trio, The Chachalacas. During the pandemic music work pretty much ground to a halt and so he decided to take up painting.

Within that time, Putnam began paintings that were inspired and informed by free-hand pencil drawings he sketched on small brown paper bags during down time while cashiering at a local grocery store.

“The inspiration for my paintings comes from a combination of geometric paintings and sculptures my father produced in the 1970s and a television show on PBS I watched as a child called “The Secret City” in which Mark Kistler taught kids how to draw in 3D. Play and Nostalgia are present in using the skills I learned from one of my favorite TV shows as a child. I also especially enjoy seeing the process of my small paper bag line drawings become large, colorful paintings where shape and plane touching creates an edge, rather than an outline. The color is playful and expressive, often allowing the paintings to take on a completely different personality.”