PAINTINGS FROM FRANCE 2006: THE SKY UMBILICUS SERIES, is presenting a Miscellaneous selection of a new series of medium size works on paper: monotype acrylic silkscreened on B.F.K. Rives paper, 76 x 56 cm. This work is inspired by the soul path in the in-between worlds (Life-Death-Life). Referring to the bardo in Buddhist traditions, japanese, Egyptian, Oceanian and pre-Columbian cultures and personal shamanic trances experiences.
http://www.j-psergent.com/en/artwork/works-on-paper/half-paper/sky-umbilicus
This new body of art works have been completed at the new artist's studio Besançon location, were Jean-Pierre had moved from New york in the year 2004, and were he is currently living and working:
http://www.j-psergent.com/en/studio
This new video series of Corpus-Archives, realized in February 2015, aims to present to the large public a selection of about twenty still images of paintings or art works, completed at several different studios locations where Jean-Pierre Sergent lived in during his artistic career. Places like his former farm in France, his different studios in Montreal, Canada, and in Brooklyn, Chelsea and Long island City in New York, to finally show the work he is currently doing nowadays in his new studio in Besançon, East of France.
JEAN-PIERRE SERGENT is a French-American artist, he developed his repertory of artistic forms in the United States and continues to work and exhibit regularly in France and the rest of Europe. He recently exhibited at two solo exhibitions in major French museums: the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Mulhouse in 2011 and the Courbet Farm of Flagey in 2102. In 2013, he had two solo shows, one of large works on paper: "Sex & Rituals" at the Omnibus Gallery of Besançon, France, and the other: "Cultures-Energies", at the Kunstpalais in Badenweiler, Germany. To learn more about Jean-Pierre Sergent's works, please visit his webpage: http://www.j-psergent.com, and also like his Facebook artist page: https://www.facebook.com/jpsergentartist