杰克 麦克沃特是肯特州立大学绘画副教授。 杰克也是一个艺术创业家，从事俄亥俄州和国外的各种项目，包括以色列，奥瓦达的美国国际学校。他最近的展览包括布鲁克林的WAH中心、比利时，布鲁塞尔的信卢卡斯艺术和建筑学院和 de Bousi 画廊、纽约市的杰弗里领袖画廊、加利福尼亚的西尔维娅白画廊、意大利的西耶娜艺术学院、约翰逊艺术中心、俄亥俄州的马龙学院和站点特定的绘画委员会。杰克新近之作是由斯塔克的艺术公所和胡佛环境媒介基金会合作资助的“水网和人类网络”。

我是一个抽象画家，通过合成和混合物来获得创作材料及灵感。 我的中心主题是把科学看做中性的或中和的结构，这也是一种允许我让事情处于工作状态的比喻说法：譬如利用了植物形式，几何结构，微小过程的物理效应，又例如添加了融冰，燃木，大量的昆虫或与流动的空气或水形成的漩涡。
我在这一系列画面所呈现的意象关注形态，形状，形式的形成过程，借以表明发展的整体状态，并与我正在创作绘画时的情感产生共鸣。 我主要描绘自然中的生物体，把他们的力量看作是创作的真正起源。同样道理，风景画家也会把眼前风景看做创作的真正起源。

Jack McWhorter is Associate Professor of Painting at Kent State University at Stark. Jack has been an Artist in Residence at various programs in Ohio and abroad, including the American International School in Ovda, Israel. His recent shows include the WAH Center in Brooklyn, Sint Lucas School of Art & Architecture and de Bousil Gallery in Brussels, Belgium, Jeffrey Leader Gallery, New York City, Sylvia White Gallery, in California, Sienna Art Institute, Italy, Johnson Center for the Arts, Malone University in Ohio and site specific painting commission; Water Webs & Human Networks funded by Arts In Stark, in collaboration with the Hoover Foundation for Environmental Media.

I am an abstract painter who responds to sources through synthesis and hybrid. My central theme considers science as a neutral or neutralizing structure; a kind of blank metaphor which allows me to let things be in the work… botanic forms, geometric structures and physical effects of tiny processes in, for example; melting ice, burning wood, swarming insects  or vortices formed by moving air and water.

The images presented here are a family of forms that focus on morphology, shapes and forms indicating states of growth or becoming and resonate for me in terms of what is happening in my paintings right now. I’m primarily drawn to organisms found in nature and respond to their power as factual beginnings in making paintings.  In the same way that a landscape painter might use the landscape as a factual beginning.