YOWZER!YOWZER!| 2011
| "Taking his cue from the Precisionists of the early 1900s, like Stella, Demuth, Driggs, and Crawford, who depicted their fascination with architecture and city planning, Josafat intertwines his structural interests with his exuberant imagination and his deep awareness of the character of buildings...By keeping his building canvases unpopulated and surrounded on all sides by open air, Josafat treats us to a new perspective on the everyday objects of our environment, making them the centerpieces, or the lead characters, in his pieces. The fact that he focuses on the bulkiest objects of our creation makes the pieces that much more exhilarating, and elicits from the viewer feelings of liberation and sky-high possibility...
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AWKP| ALL WORK KNOW PLAY INTERVIEW 2011
AWKP: With all the books and fashion magazines that you may flip through for inspiration, where would you say you have pulled great inspiration from a source least expected?JJ: A vacation book about the Philippines that my dad had back in his military days. Inside, it had these simple line drawing illustrations with a few splashes of color on them. To me, the simplicity of it made sense. It was almost as if someone was making that book as they were passing through on vacation. This is where I got the epiphany to create tons of watercolor sketches. To simply get the message through with simple line drawings and a few splashes of color....
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SAN DIEGO CITYBEAT COVER| 2010
| Jordan Josafat is an emerging painter and designer. His piece, “Block Party,” is interesting (far better in it’s full, un-cropped form) and is part of a series called House Warming, which, according to Josafat, “is a stab at the deterioration of neighborhoods.”... READ MORE @ http://lastblogonearth.com/2008/12/11/citybeat-cover-artist-dec-10/ |
