Artist of the Day: Jake Fried

Jake Fried

LOCATION: Boston, MA
PRIMARY MEDIA: Ink, White-Out, coffee, gouache
EDUCATION:
Self-taught animator
Boston University [BA art history, 2009]
Maryland Institute College of Art 2002-2004 [painting]
MAJOR PROJECTS:
Night Vision short film [2015]
Brain Lapse short film [2014]
Headspace short film [2014]
When I Was Done Dying intro to Dan Deacon music video [2015]
WHAT IS THE MOST VALUABLE PIECE OF ARTISTIC ADVICE YOU HAVE EVER RECEIVED, AND FROM WHO?
“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is ‘man’ in a higher sense–he is ‘collective man’–one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.” –C.G. Jung
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