Claude-Gerard Jean — MYTHOS
In MYTHOS, Claude-Gerard Jean investigates the unseen forces that shape human perception, drawing inspiration from psychedelic visual phenomena and the interior landscapes of altered consciousness. His work approaches reality as fluid and shifting—an active interplay between external stimuli and the psychological frameworks that filter them. Through this lens, his pieces become more than visual experiences; they become sites where perception itself can be examined, questioned, and expanded.
Claude-Gerard’s practice is grounded in the interplay of geometry, light, and optical rhythm. Whether through layered paper sculptures or optically charged paintings, he constructs forms that hover between stillness and motion, surface and depth. These works function as both mirrors and portals: mirrors that reflect the viewer’s own perceptual habits, and portals that invite a temporary suspension of the familiar. Their mesmerizing precision encourages extended looking, activating a meditative sensibility that is central to his visual language.
As a self-taught artist, Claude-Gerard approaches his work with an exploratory spirit. His transition from digital collage to analog sculpture and now to reflective surfaces and OP art methodologies mirrors the conceptual arc of his practice—an ongoing exploration of how materials can reshape visual and psychological experience. This fluidity between mediums is not simply technical; it is emblematic of his larger inquiry into perception’s capacity to shift, layer, and dissolve.
Claude-Gerard’s background as a nurse informs the empathetic and psychological dimensions of his work. His engagement with mental health, counter-culture, and the thresholds of consciousness imbues each piece with a quiet but persistent sensitivity. By pairing optical intensity with conceptual depth, he cultivates a dialogue around how we see—and how our inner states shape what we understand as real. His works subtly invoke the therapeutic, offering viewers a moment of introspection through rhythm, repetition, and the gentle destabilization of the familiar.
Within the context of MYTHOS, Claude-Gerard’s contributions form a contemporary mythology of perception. His works chart a space where the scientific, the psychological, and the mystical coexist, revealing the mind as both architect and explorer of its own realities. By foregrounding the fluid nature of consciousness, Claude-Gerard invites viewers to consider perception not as a passive act, but as an ongoing, generative process—one capable of revealing the mythic within the everyday.