This fusion of light creates surprising contrasts and intense colors, while often producing confused lines and fantastical distorted outlines, contrasted with the geometric shapes and creating a style of painting that seems somehow familiar yet new.
Jaren was born in San Francisco, California in 1945 and has been drawing and painting since he was a child. He has a AA design in fine art, from Contra Costa College and attended Art Center College of Design, California College of Arts and Crafts, and Cal State University Hayward. Having grown up near San Francisco Bay, Jaren has always been fascinated by reflections, and how light plays on water.
Often, Jaren will use his computer to distort, and manipulate the reflective photos he takes, making them even more abstract. The resulting images are the basis for his paintings. In the past several years, he began introducing geometric shapes to these computer-generated images - sometimes creating 20 or more images before being satisfied with the result. Jaren then makes a digital print, which he uses to produce the finished painting.
Jaren’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, including the Contemporary Art Museum in Vienna, AT, and his work is in private collections throughout the United States and Europe, his work is also included in the permanent collection of the New York Folk Art Museum, New York City, NY.