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Jake Galm
When did you really get into art?
Jake: I've always drawn. I remember feeling so gypped in elementary
school. I'd complain to my teachers. We had to read and do math every day of
the week, but we'd only do one Art project on Friday. That's weak. They used
to tell me that I'll depend on reading and math much more than art when I grow
up. I haven't, I never read or do math. I don't really have that good of a job
though either...
How did you come to the realization that you should try your luck at art on a
more serious level?
Jake: I went to college to learn how to make movies.
I'm always broke though, so when you can't always afford Top Ramen a movie
budget is way out of the question. A movie costs like at least 100 packs of Top
Ramen. Art was the more affordable route of communication. The supplies are
also much easier to steal.
How did you discover the particular style that you have?
Jake: By doing a bunch of pieces. When I started I sounded a lot like
the artists that influence me the most. Taking what I like from them, mixing it
up and making something new. After I did that enough then I could just pull from
my own work without relying so much on other artists.
How would you describe your style?
Jake: Bubblegum Cubist Surrealism
Who or what influences your art?
Jake: Modigliani, Picasso, Van Gogh, Women, Northwest Indian Art,
Graffiti, Marvel Comics, Fleischer and Warner Brother Cartoons, Women, van Eyck,
Early Christian Art, Jungian psychology, Alchemy, dreams, or sometimes just a
pretty Woman with a unique style.
How often do you create a new piece?
Jake: I've don't really time them. The fastest I've ever done was two
days. My hand was in a knot for about two days afterwards.
What kind of success have you had with your art?
Jake: I've been getting to the point where my pieces really feel like my
own. Art's from somewhere else, nobody knows where, so when I say they're my own
I don't mean I'm the author. I'm like the language, but it's getting to be my
own language.
Of course, language can not exist in a vacuum though so you'll hear words in my
language that are the same in other languages. Still, I think that's a success,
when you can serve as an outlet for whatever art is.
I haven't made much money yet though, if that's what you were asking.
What would be the ultimate goal for you and your art?
Jake: It gets mad when I call it my art. I just try to keep up with it,
and I trust that I'll pick up everything I need on the way.
What do you see as an accomplishment in the way of art?
Jake: Making a modest living; moderate three story house, pool, some
groupies, maybe a cartoon series where a live action me hosts the crazy animated
adventures of my 2 dimensional counterpart.
What kind of message, if any, do you try to convey through your art?
Jake: I'm still trying to decode most of my pieces. They're kinda like
hearing a drunk voicemail you made that you totally don't remember but you can
tell it's your voice.
The courts can't prove it though, a voice recording alone is not substantial
evidence, for any aspiring artists out there.
Sum up your art in one word.
Jake: Bow-legged
More work from Jake can be found at Manic-Art.com
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