Jay Ressler • Artist
  • Sun-brero
  • Spiral
  • Woody on the Beach
  • Equivalence 2023: The Hound of War
  • The Awakening
  • Sealed with a Kiss
  • OBX Black Sun
  • One Night in Venice
  • Windblown
  • Mottled Refuge
  • Tulip Drops
  • Trunk Trunk
  • Sinkable
  • Three Heads are Better than Two
  • Requisite of Civilization
  • Posted Notes
  • It's All About the Curves
  • Burl on the Beach
  • Botanical Bench
  • Lakeside Geometry
  • Patio Halo
  • Lines in the Sand
  • Jug on a Sill
  • Dissipation
  • A Web of Ties
  • Wild Hair Day at Chincoteague
  • Two Lips or Three?
  • The Crossing
  • Stamps to Stamps
  • Aqueous Dreams
  • Still Waters
  • Forward March
  • Country Jewels
  • All Tied Up in Knots
  • Port Talks
  • Spring Melt Float

No. 29. Driven to Abstraction, A Black and White Show

  • Sun-brero
  • Spiral
  • Woody on the Beach
  • Equivalence 2023: The Hound of War
  • The Awakening
  • Sealed with a Kiss
  • OBX Black Sun
  • One Night in Venice
  • Windblown
  • Mottled Refuge
  • Tulip Drops
  • Trunk Trunk
  • Sinkable
  • Three Heads are Better than Two
  • Requisite of Civilization
  • Posted Notes
  • It's All About the Curves
  • Burl on the Beach
  • Botanical Bench
  • Lakeside Geometry
  • Patio Halo
  • Lines in the Sand
  • Jug on a Sill
  • Dissipation
  • A Web of Ties
  • Wild Hair Day at Chincoteague
  • Two Lips or Three?
  • The Crossing
  • Stamps to Stamps
  • Aqueous Dreams
  • Still Waters
  • Forward March
  • Country Jewels
  • All Tied Up in Knots
  • Port Talks
  • Spring Melt Float

Many of the pieces shown here are featured in an exhibit currently showing at Saw Cheese Restaurant in West Reading, PA. Three are showing at Art Plus Gallery concurrently (Port Talks, Spring Melt Float, and Forward March).

  • Sun-brero
  • Spiral
  • Woody on the Beach
  • Equivalence 2023: The Hound of War
  • The Awakening
  • Sealed with a Kiss
  • OBX Black Sun
  • One Night in Venice
  • Windblown
  • Mottled Refuge
  • Tulip Drops
  • Trunk Trunk
  • Sinkable
  • Three Heads are Better than Two
  • Requisite of Civilization
  • Posted Notes
  • It's All About the Curves
  • Burl on the Beach
  • Botanical Bench
  • Lakeside Geometry
  • Patio Halo
  • Lines in the Sand
  • Jug on a Sill
  • Dissipation
  • A Web of Ties
  • Wild Hair Day at Chincoteague
  • Two Lips or Three?
  • The Crossing
  • Stamps to Stamps
  • Aqueous Dreams
  • Still Waters
  • Forward March
  • Country Jewels
  • All Tied Up in Knots
  • Port Talks
  • Spring Melt Float
AbstractsBlack and white Photograph
  • Sun-brero
  • Spiral
  • Woody on the Beach
  • Equivalence 2023: The Hound of War
  • The Awakening
  • Sealed with a Kiss
  • OBX Black Sun
  • One Night in Venice
  • Windblown
  • Mottled Refuge
  • Tulip Drops
  • Trunk Trunk
  • Sinkable
  • Three Heads are Better than Two
  • Requisite of Civilization
  • Posted Notes
  • It's All About the Curves
  • Burl on the Beach
  • Botanical Bench
  • Lakeside Geometry
  • Patio Halo
  • Lines in the Sand
  • Jug on a Sill
  • Dissipation
  • A Web of Ties
  • Wild Hair Day at Chincoteague
  • Two Lips or Three?
  • The Crossing
  • Stamps to Stamps
  • Aqueous Dreams
  • Still Waters
  • Forward March
  • Country Jewels
  • All Tied Up in Knots
  • Port Talks
  • Spring Melt Float
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Jay M. Ressler

Jay Ressler Composite Photography, Encaustic Art, and Oil Painting He is an outstanding location photographer and painter, with an eye that can capture the soul of a Havana back street as beautifully as the sip of a hungry hummingbird, often with compelling black and white images. Jay Ressler is best known for artistic expression that lives in layers between opposites. “I like to explore boundaries,” he explains. “Boundaries between consciousness and the unconscious, between reality and imagination, between certainty and skepticism.” He does this by compositing his own photography in multiple layers to produce stunningly original, interleaved images. Using Photoshop, other image manipulation software and a variety of digital effects, he paints one photographic layer on top of another. He takes advantage of textures he's captured along with an array of processes for manipulating light, contrast, and color to tell the story. “Distorting and reinterpreting the literal 'machine moments' captured by the camera is as old as the art of photography,” he insists. Jay occasionally extends his multi-layered approach to encaustic mixed media creations. Based on ancient techniques, the process begins with cooking his own recipes of beeswax and damar resin and applying this medium between the layers of photographic images, along with various pigmented compounds and materials to add color, texture and expression. Either way, the results are riveting. The viewer is drawn into an unfolding, dreamlike scene that might be heart-warming, haunting, gritty, poignant or magical. Sometimes, within the various layers, all of the above. The award-winning photographer/artist has many dimensions himself. He studied advanced digital photography at Pittsburgh Filmmakers and advanced encaustic techniques with leading instructors in the field. He worked as an underground coal miner, steelworker, machinist, labor and civil rights activist, copywriter and commercial printer. He has a BS in Psychology from Albright College.

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