J. Rees

Visual Art – New Orleans

J. Rees is a self-taught contemporary visual artist who specializes in mixed media techniques to create conceptual pieces that exhibit a variety of subject matter. The Louisiana native is heavily influenced by the political and cultural contexts of social interaction and focuses on creating pieces that juxtapose the intersectional factors of social realities with the intricate aesthetics of the natural world. Much of Rees’s work employs critical representations and satirical symbolism to highlight controversial social issues, in efforts of sparking dialogue. J. Rees’s artistic process is a productive channel of therapeutic release; incorporating a range of mediums [i.e. acrylics, ink, watercolor, canvas], this process focuses on rooting subjective emotion within each work as a means of storytelling.