ART OF SPANJER

I find fulfillment in getting a response from people when they see my art. Mostly I want folks to see my art and get nostalgic. I want to the viewer to see something in my art that brings back a memory makes them tap into a feeling or memory from the past that was meaningful to them. My concepts and subjects are geared to coaxing out lost memories, forgotten and bringing them back to the surface to be enjoyed in new ways. I want people to find my art as a refuge for creativity and happiness!

Keith Haring, Roy Lictenstein, Vaughan Pursell Spanjer, Ryan E. Cronin, Erenst Hemingway, Bradley R. McDuffie.

Yes indeed. I currently live in Alabama (the South), but I live most of my life in the Northeast, (New York). The North East was an eclectic artistic epicenter for creatives and I learned to act, perform, write, paint and conceptualize all of this into graphic forms art. As a kid, I got involved in everything from, sports, to camps, to acting, to creative writing; design, you name it, and all of that experience and expressive involvement has filled me full of latent creative energy and now it is flooding out. To have lived half my life in the North and now the second half in the South is rounding my creativity out in exciting ways.

Currently I am deepening my exploration into “Gen X” era commercial product iconography. I have been playing around with classic product packaging and logoʼs. I love positioning commercial products in stacks and collections – he products I have been flirting with have mostly all been 80ʼs era in design. I plan to push this pretty hard over the next year or two.

Art of Spanjer. Not sure.. I just didnʼt want to call out myself by my name because I donʼt think I am hero in my art. I want my art to speak for itself and have sort of itʼs own life/identity. In fact, I never used to sign my art. For years I would just let the art live and breath, but as you can imagine the need to identify it as something having come from an “artist” was important so rather than stick my proper name on it, I went for something less… Identifiable.

Maybe it is not a hobby per se, but I am the Marketing Director at our family-owned golf resort in Alabama – Pursell Farms. I refer to living on “The Farm” which is our 3,200 acre farm resort and #1 Golf Course in Alabama for 8 years straight. So to some extent operating and “selling” the farm product is another important passion of mine. I also play golf. Golf is an activity that clears my mind, helps me to unwind and opens up many doors of creativity for me. spending time with my wife, fellow artists, Vaughan Pursell Spanjer and my kids while serving at my church is also important extra-artisic activities in my live.

Most ALL commercial brands particularly those with a pop/pulp sort of sentiment.