Jay Van Buren

Jay Van Buren

I am a painter from Kansas living and working in Brooklyn, New York. I have a BFA in painting from the University of Kansas and an MFA in painting from Parsons School of Design.
A PDF version of my resume is here.
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QUICK LINKS

Portfolios
- Paintings
- Events
Artist Statments:
- 2006 Artist Statement
- 2007 Artist Statment
- Find out about my SL/RL hybrid project Brooklyn is Watching

Recent Events and Exhibitions:

Additional Material:

WTF is a fursuit portrait paint-off?
What is the Fursuit Portrait Project
The Show in KC from the Furry POV

Recent Press

Article in New York Times with big section on Brooklyn is Watching
This video was made by Mediastorm about furries and me.
Brooklyn is Watching 2008-2009 was mixed reality project that recieved a TON of press click here to see a list

Mention in Woyro's Warren Podcast
Article in Time Out New York
Kansas City Star Article
Radio Open Source web article
Topeka Capital-Journals web-tv
University Daily Kansan article

My distributed digital identity:

There are bits of information about me all over the web, Here are some examples:
I've been posting images of my paintings on Flickr here,including the fursuit portrait project, the first fursuit portrait paint-off and the ongoing stuffed animal (Knuffel Besten) paintings.
I've described the fursuit portrait project on my livejournal page which is here.
I blog (intermittently as often as i can) about art, politics, technology and whatever else i find interesting on early-adopter, the blog
I've got a myspace page here.

See my article in the dutch art magazine BIGMAG

For information about graphic design, art direction, and marketing / web strategy services from early-adopter.com LLC please click here.

Contact:

275 Park Ave. #6S

Brooklyn NY, 11205

(785) 220- 2344

jay@early-adopter.com

This Just In, I'm Blogtastic! (thanks y'all!)
A fellow artist
Some Animal Blog
Snark it up, fuzzball!
Kansas City Star article on propeller