//no longer afraid //

“…JJ Quincy’s work draws inspiration from New York postmodernists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, the high abstractions of Wassily Kandinsky and Mark Rothko, and the surrealism of 2000s-era Adult Swim animations. His illustrations revolve around visual biologies, human consciousness, and the ecosystems of microscopic forms. The pieces teem with life, and move as dense seas filled with creatures in cellular phases—primordial soups of the stuff from childhood: Sunday morning cereal and cartoons on the couch: angels, wizards, knights, and demons fused into a singular mass of fragmented memories; Quincy’s practice merges abstraction with low-fidelity nostalgia. His abstractions speak, more deeply, to a universal human oscillation—the oftentimes indistinguishable boundary we feel, from birth unto death, between excitement and dread, joy and fear, growth and decay. We navigate this boundary time and time again, standing at the edge of an unknown world, one into which we are destined to grow, and destined, ultimately, to leave…” — S.K