Jylian gustlin biography
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Jylian Gustlin is a native Californian and grew up in the San Francisco bay area. She has been shaped by the technology explosion of Silicon Valley and her art reflects her in-depth knowledge of that technology.
“I knew that if I finished, I would never make art” is how Jylian Gustlin explains leaving college one semester short of a degree in computer science and mathematics to attend the Academy of Art College, San Francisco. After completing her BFA, Jylian fused her understanding of computers and her passion for art to became a graphics programmer for Apple Computer, Inc. Now, Jylian uniquely combines the effects of modern technology with traditional techniques. While painting in acrylic and oil paints, her artwork often conveys the same complex layered effects possible in computer programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Just as she challenged the creative limitations of the latest computer software, Gustlin experiments with a variety of materi
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Jylian Gustlin
About Jylian Gustlin
Jylian Gustlin is a native Californian and grew up in the San Francisco bay area. She has been shaped bygd the technology explosion of Silicon Valley and her art reflects her in-depth knowledge of that technology.
“I knew that if inom finished, inom would never make art” is how Jylian Gustlin explains leaving college one semester short of a degree in computer science and mathematics to attend the Academy of Art College, San Francisco. After completing her BFA, Jylian fused her understanding of computers and her passion for art to become a graphics programmer for Apple Computer, Inc. Now, Jylian uniquely combines the effects of modern technology with traditional techniques. While painting in acrylic and oil paints, her artwork often conveys the same complex layered effects possible in computer programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Just as she challenged the creative limitations of the latest computer software, G
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Jylian Gustlin
Original Abstract Paintings
About the Artist
Jylian Gustlin&#;s paintings have been widely featured in over 54 exhibitions and collections in both national galleries and internationally since Her modern artwork has been displayed in public, private, and corporate collections across the world including: Oracle, Adobe, Apple, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Water Club Hotel by Borgata.
About the Artwork
Jylian Gustlin uniquely combines the effects of modern technology with traditional techniques. Her artwork often conveys the same complex layered effects possible in computer programs. Working with two- part epoxy resin, oil and acrylic paints, charcoal, wax, gold leaf, pastel and graphite on board, Gustlin draws, paints, scratches on her surfaces. For the last several years, Jylian Gustlin has been working on a series of paintings that are based on the Fibonacci mathematical theories. The Fibonacci mathematical theory creates rectangles and shell s