Jeff Sheridan works with systems, perception, and material presence. His paintings and murals operate as fields rather than images, where form emerges through repetition, contrast, and the activation of negative space. Structure and gesture exist in tension, allowing the work to oscillate between diagram and atmosphere.
Rather than depict the natural world, the work engages the forces that organize it. Accumulation, erosion, growth, and dispersal are translated into visual rhythms that unfold across the surface. Marks gather, disperse, and reorganize, producing unstable structures that feel biological without resolving into representation.
Process is iterative and responsive. Composition develops through sustained looking and adjustment, guided by perceptual weight and relational balance rather than fixed plans. Material remains visible as ground, not backdrop, allowing surface, support, and mark to operate as a single system.
Across intimate works and architectural scale murals, Sheridan’s practice considers how minimal visual conditions can hold complex states. The paintings function as environments of emergence, where form precedes meaning and perception becomes the primary site of experience.
Jeff is based in Portland, Oregon.
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