Jean-Pierre Sergent
Jean-Pierre Sergent was born in Morteau, France in 1958. He is a French and American artist. He studied architecture in Strasbourg and later painting at L'école des Beaux-Arts de Besançon. In an early part of his career, he worked as a visual artist while raising and training horses in the Jura Mountains. During this period he completed his monochrome abstractions on Masonite polyptych panels. In 1991 he moved to Montreal to devote himself fully to painting, creating works using Plexiglas, industrial materials, newspaper clippings and photos. He also began incorporating silkscreening techniques. In 1993 he set up studio in New York City. It was there that he began to paint street-found objects - Sculpture-Painting series, and created silkscreens on Plexiglas tile assemblages.
2001-2003 saw him complete the Mayan Diary series, a modular mural installation of 42" x 42" silkscreened Plexiglas squares inspired by pre-Columbian Aztec and Mayan imagery. This body of work is still in progress and is exhibited at several New York galleries and cultural centers. Sergent uses computer technology to redesign gathered images and cut silkscreen film.
In 2004 he Moved his studio to Besançon, France and divides his time between New York City and Besançon.
Currently Sergent is working fom his Besançon studio on a new body of work entitled The Entropic Suites, silkscreen on Plexiglas. The images painted are mostly inspired from Japanese mangas sexual cartoons, Hindus Yantras meditations drawings and genetics patterns from archaic cultures. His work is exhibited extensively in Europe, as well as in Canada and the US.
Jean-Pierre Sergent was born in Morteau, France in 1958. He is a French and American artist. He studied architecture in Strasbourg and later painting at L'école des Beaux-Arts de Besançon. In an early part of his career, he worked as a visual artist while raising and training horses in the Jura Mountains. During this period he completed his monochrome abstractions on Masonite polyptych panels. In 1991 he moved to Montreal to devote himself fully to painting, creating works using Plexiglas, industrial materials, newspaper clippings and photos. He also began incorporating silkscreening techniques. In 1993 he set up studio in New York City. It was there that he began to paint street-found objects - Sculpture-Painting series, and created silkscreens on Plexiglas tile assemblages.
2001-2003 saw him complete the Mayan Diary series, a modular mural installation of 42" x 42" silkscreened Plexiglas squares inspired by pre-Columbian Aztec and Mayan imagery. This body of work is still in progress and is exhibited at several New York galleries and cultural centers. Sergent uses computer technology to redesign gathered images and cut silkscreen film.
In 2004 he Moved his studio to Besançon, France and divides his time between New York City and Besançon.
Currently Sergent is working fom his Besançon studio on a new body of work entitled The Entropic Suites, silkscreen on Plexiglas. The images painted are mostly inspired from Japanese mangas sexual cartoons, Hindus Yantras meditations drawings and genetics patterns from archaic cultures. His work is exhibited extensively in Europe, as well as in Canada and the US.
