Outdoor

J.Charboneau

Reno, NV

"My art should be as malleable as the world we live in. It should not be stagnant. It should possess life, and inspire the looker to give and take life from it."

J. Charboneau is an American contemporary painter based in Reno, Nevada. After completing her BFA in 2008 she then traveled abroad living and working as a nomadic painter and muralist for over 5 years. Her work is held in private collections across Europe, Australia, South Korea and Mexico. She has been involved in exhibitions in over a dozen cities across the globe and has curated numerous public art events under her ongoing community project, Alley Art. She currently creates and operates out of her home studio and continues to travel for live painting performances and national + international art fairs and exhibitions.

Charboneau’s creative process begins from obsessive observation of all the diverse places she finds herself exploring. What begins as chaotic pen sketches and captured moments in prose, later become refined instinctual abstractions of form and movement.

These ‘Visual Philosophies’ enlighten the eye with bold chaotic brushstrokes while an intentional vagueness of form and space allows the subjective experience to be relative to all.

Some muses that influence Charboneau’s artwork across all borders are:

impressionism. expressionism. street art. nature. philosophy. jazz. haiku & prose poetry. and people watching social anthropology.

She is a visual philosopher who is out to absorb all that this life has to show… then spit it out onto canvas and paper as chaotically and yet beautifully as it was first observed.