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Last Updated: 11/24/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Married
Age: 32
Sign: Virgo

City: Chuk:shon (Tucson)
State: Arizona
Country: US
Signup Date: 4/7/2005

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Monday, July 06, 2009

60th Annual Navajo Festival of Arts Flagstaff.

I will have a booth at this years Navajo Show at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff Arizona.

60th Annual Navajo Festival of Arts and Culture

Member Preview July 31, 2009
Public Festival August 1–2, 2009

The 60th Annual Navajo Festival is July 31–August 2, 2009. 2009 information is posted as soon as it is available, but the 2008 information is here to give you an idea of what the festival is all about.

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Monday, June 22, 2009

Flaglive Review of From Boxing thru Death
Category: Art and Photography

http://flaglive.com/flagstafflive_story.cfm?storyID=198374

-Flaglive June 18-24, 2009. Vol. 15, Issue 25

Painting thru
Navajo artist Jeremy Singer blends Native culture and modern art
By Jennifer Rae Palmer
Published on 06/18/2009

When you think of Native American art, several things may come to mind. Perhaps you reminisce about elementary school field trips to the Museum of Northern Arizona, staring with wonder at the Kachina dolls and elaborate rug designs. But oil painter Jeremy Singer wants to help change your idea of Native American art.
     Singer presented a new collection, “From Boxing thru Death,” at Uptown Billiards during June’s First Friday Art Walk, which will remain on display through the month.
     His paintings in the show represent his latest works. Singer chose the theme “From Boxing thru Death,” then gathered pieces he thought would work in that theme including “Hanta Virus,” which makes a statement about disease, and “The Boxer,” which features a down-and-out fighter in the ring.
     At first glance, it’s difficult not to take note of the bright colors and architectural patterns within the scenes. “Just from being out here, in Arizona, you see the blues and the reds,” Singer says. “Even being out in Tucson, or on the Res, you see those oranges and yellows. I like to look to nature.”
     Singer’s paintings represent modern interpretations of an older time. They are simple, yet loud—aching to be heard.

“Modernizing the Hogan is relating more of the idea of creating space,” Singer says. “I took the inside of the room, but I abstracted it. It’s a comment on the structural design of houses.”
     Each painting has its own face, its own life and its own shape. The paintings don’t leave much to interpretation—they are straight forward and to the point—yet Singer manages to represent his ideas through abstract patterns and shapes.
     Each painting is balanced and even, pulling from the natural symmetry in nature. “Symmetrical value of patterns is important to me,” Singer says. “So, everything I’ve done has a lot of balance.”
     Singer even tries to relate some of his own humor and personality into his paintings by interpreting a story into his art. “I try to find humor in everything,” Singer says. “I tried to do that in ‘Indian Sunburn,’ because I give you instructions on how to give an Indian sunburn in that painting.”
     Singer is inspired by everything around him, including subjects with political and social connotations. For example, in “Story of Corn” Singer features an ear of corn emanating from three skulls with “E85” written on the skulls’ foreheads.
     “They took something natural like corn and made it into something man made with the ethanol,” Singer says. “’Story of Corn is about destroying something beautiful.”
     Despite the political messages in “Hanta Virus” or “Story of Corn,” Singer insists that he’s not trying to push an agenda. “I’m just trying to express myself as an artist,” says Singer.
     Even though Singer’s work isn’t stereotypical of Native American art, Singer relies heavily on his native heritage for inspiration. Singer was born on the Navajo Reservation in 1977. He is a full-blooded Native American of the Navajo tribe.
     “I think my art is a combination of modern and the Native culture, but at the same time I don’t want to say that that’s what it is, because it just lumps me in a group,” Singer says. “I’m an artist first, I just happen to be Native American.”
     On his Web site, Singers describes in his artist’s statement how he works hard to give a new face to native art: “When someone thinks Native American art, a cliché pops into their head. Art made by Native Americans is seen as a generic picture of an Indian princess, wolf and a teepee. I want to show there are subjects beyond the clichéd teepee and loincloth. As an artist I want to explore and grow.”
     Singer started painting in high school when he was just a teenager. His parents were extremely supportive of his passions and encouraged him to continue his education. Once Singer finished his bachelor of fine arts degree, he started putting together collections for fine art galleries and art shows. Singer says he is excited to have his work on display in Flagstaff because he spent so much time here when he attended NAU and has worked so hard to get to this point.
     “I hope my art is constantly changing,” Singer says. “I can’t predict what it might change into next. I will keep finding inspiration in things.”
     However, Singer says he is hoping to combine his art with digital technologies in order to create something new and different. He hopes to keep pulling inspiration from everything around him, and eventually transcend his current style.
     “People like Jackson Pollack took inspiration from Navajo sand paintings, and Picasso took inspiration from indigenous Africa and indigenous Spain,” Singer says. “I feel like I want to reverse that trend. I want to take inspiration from modernist art and from my own culture and put it back out there. I want to reclaim art for us (Native Americans).”
     For more information on Jeremy Singer, visit www.jeremysinger.com, and be sure to check out his collection, “From Boxing thru Death,” at Uptown Billiards, 114 N. Leroux, throughout the month of June.

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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

51st Annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market march 7 and 8
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Come on by I will have a booth at this years heard Indian market...say hello

51st Annual Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market
March 7 & 8, 2009, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Southwest Indian Art Fair Tucson AZ
Current mood:

blah
Category: Art and Photography

Come on By I will have a booth set up here on FEB 23-24 at the Arizona state Museum on the U of A campus on Park and University...

Later
Jeremy

Currently listening:
The Bedlam in Goliath
By The Mars Volta
Release date: 29 January, 2008

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

One of those days...
Current mood:

artistic

Might Watch new Harry Potter today...Other than that, just starting a new painting made a frame gonna prime it...jamming some tunes and mostly just watchin paint dry...LOL...Hope it rains today...Oh yeah gotta do Laundry...

Currently listening:
The Cure
By The Cure
Release date: 29 June, 2004

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Monday, March 26, 2007

My Dream, about art
Current mood:

sleepy
Category: Art and Photography

The other night I woke up had a weird dream...I was displaying some of my paintings out either in Flagstaff or some where nice, some portraits of indians or other things I cant remember. Are dreams weird? Some details are as vivid as the days events and other things seem to go but in reality it does not make sense. Then other events in dreams are just a blur. Anyways. My wife and I like to set up, hang the paintings straight as possible and at the correct height. Or at least try, then we go eat, print out the title cards and return to tag the paintings. However in the dream we did all the above. Except when we came back, all the portraits that I had painted where missing the background. I mean I painted everything there. What had happened was someone came in, scraped off all the paint around the people and just stole the background. All that was left was the portrait and raw canvas with paint stains of the background. I believe the police came filled out a police report on stolen paint. I cant remember if I had the serial numbers or not. The paintings where there...againn there was word on the street that these painting where good...LOL...Maybe one day when I am asleep, the cops will come over and tell me they had a big break in my case. They will find my backgrounds and the number one suspect will be this guy...

Currently listening:
Black Sails in the Sunset
By AFI
Release date: 18 May, 1999

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Friday, November 10, 2006

8-bit day dream...
Current mood:

hyper
Category: Art and Photography

Currently listening:
Blood Mountain
By Mastodon
Release date: 12 September, 2006

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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Saddam Hussein or Mel Gibson?
Current mood:

amused
Category: Art and Photography

Here is a sketch I did...it was of Saddam but in a way it looks like Mel Gibson too...go figure..LOL

Currently listening:
Now, Diabolical
By Satyricon
Release date: 13 June, 2006

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Friday, November 03, 2006

Creature from the multi-ethnic lagoon
Current mood:

mischievous
Category: Art and Photography

After debating with my cousin travis about horror movies and their meaning. I decided to title this image...The Creature from the multi-ethnic lagoon...LOL gotta be PC these days...