About.

On any given night at his New Jersey home, you will find artist J.E. Jeanty in his concrete backyard with multiple blank canvases, recycled wood, cans of spray paint, a plethora of acrylic paint bottles, markers, crayons, newspaper clippings, and few art projects being tended to simultaneously. “I don’t premeditate when I create.” “I take my ideas, materials and my feelings to a blank slate and I allow the art to come together.” Whether that is pouring multiple cans of paint on a canvas, picking it up and then letting it ooze down to another canvas below to create multiple images or using twigs and his house keys to carve hash marks on a wooden slate, Jeanty’s approach to art is erratic and impulsive. He believes that art is his uncensored emotional outlet. “Whether I’m ecstatic about my son riding his bike without training wheels for the first time, mourning the death of a loved one, fearful about the uncertainties of a pandemic, anxious about my job, overwhelmed by being a Black man in America or angry about the injustices of police brutality, art allows me the freedom to express the cacophony of thoughts and emotions that live within me.”