Jeremiah Stansbury is a painter from a seaside town in New Jersey. He currently resides in Memphis, Tennessee. Originality is an important aspect of his artistic journey. All of his paintings stem from a kind of internal prompting or reaction to specific real world events. His "style" is simply the rate at which his imagination makes sense of those events that touch his life.

Meaning is central to this notion of translation as is seeing; in this context "to see" means to understand how the rise of one external event is prompted by the end of another seemingly separate event. Events or happenings in the world prompt response only in so far as there is meaning. It is a fact that ones response to an external event is what gives that event a "meaning" and shape. "Response" here is defined as making an internal decision that manifests itself in a real or physical way.

Stansbury believes that an artist's style develops through a close investigation into the way he/she gives meaning to the external world. In Jeremiah's words, "Artists can only give meaning to their individual life in the same proportion in which they imbue meaning into the subject of their artwork."

Jeremiah studied painting in New York under Brooke Larsen at the School of Visual Arts. He graduated with a BA from the University of Memphis and has had several shows in the Memphis area at D'Edge Art, Midtown Artist Market, and Painted Planet. His work is currently on view at Painted Planet in Memphis.

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(July 2004)