About Jac Painter

Known for her vibrant work with resin, Jac strives to honor her community by thoughtfully composing found objects and floating them in epoxy resin that she often tints with different media.  Dolls, perfume bottles, beer cans, and even an unfired bullet have made their way into her art.  But, most often, she uses chips of graffiti (literal decades of spray paint) that she picks up off the ground of Krog Street Tunnel in Atlanta, GA.  Her work brings permanence to the otherwise temporary graffiti art in her neighborhood. Jac came to Atlanta from Seattle after three years in Amsterdam.  She started her professional life as a global retail real estate expert and worked across the US and 25 countries.  But she found her “jam” when she discovered resin work, and never looked back.

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about the art

While walking thru the Krog Street Tunnel in the spring of 2017 I noticed freshly painted mural art and there was a dimensionality, a landscape, to the art.  Because of years of street art, the paint beneath had begun to crack and chip.  It appeared as though the street artist had cleared a patch of old, cracking paint— giving their work a border.  The chips had fallen to the ground, some small, some big.  The edges were jagged and I could see years of layers of paint, art, intention.  I collected those and treasured them.  They shouldn’t be thrown away.  Inspiration hit and I created my first piece:  “K for Krog” -a gift for my husband. I was hooked.  Before deciding to do more, I consulted with members of the street art community on the ethics of “repurposing” pieces of someone else’s art.  It was widely agreed that as long as it wasn’t a direct representation, it was honoring a temporary artform.

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