Jarvis Rockwell
June 27th, 2008 John
Jarvis Rockwell is easily one of the biggest reasons our family fell for the Berkshires — we first encountered him at his Maya show at Mass MoCA about 7 years ago. Jarvis’ work redirected my eye in both photography and everyday life and really got my brain going in making philosophical connections via his most widely publicized medium — action figures. I’ve mined that territory ever since encountering his work and it’s really my photographic passion.Over time, I’ve had a couple opportunities to talk with Jarvis — he’s Norman Rockwell’s son, in case you didn’t realize — but he devised Maya 3 in downtown North Adams for a big summer project and that gave me the excuse to talk at length with him and hang out, shoot some video and even contribute a small bit to the new pyramid (geeky of me, but awfully exciting — you can imagine the scenes I set up involved a lot of Doctor Who figures).I will post the straight interview eventually, but in the meantime here is the article that resulted from our talk, as well as this little video I put together of some impromptu footage I shot (I wasn’t really planning on doing it, I didn’t bring my DV camera, so this was all shot on my little tiny Nikon Coolpix).
Anyhow, I’m glad to be able to get to know Jarvis better — he’s a great and funny and fascinating guy. He’ll be hanging around the gallery in downtown North Adams this summer doing a wall drawing and he’s very approachable — I highly recommend checking him out!
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