Hypebeast: The Muses of Artist JJ Manford Take Center Stage in ‘Fifth Season'

While his paintings might appear informed by real life settings or photographs, Manford intuitively builds each interior scene, allowing his unconscious to dictate the flow of each work. “Hardly any of my paintings are literal depictions of personal memories, or places I have been or thought about,” Manford previously said in an interview “however all of these things seep into my unconscious and rise to the level of my awareness, to varying degrees. Along those lines, I tend to shy away from prescriptive imagery, and trust where my compositional and painterly impulses take me.” - Shawn Ghassemitari, Hypebeast 

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