Artist Jerry Young to display his work for the first time in 39 years
Artist Jerry Young. Photo Portrait of an artist as an old man. Wearing a willowy, white neck beard which betrays his youthfulness, Jerry Young’s eyes gleam from under feathered eyebrows. Puffing a cigarillo, he’s reserved in discussing his role as an artist. “I never called myself an artist. I’d call myself an art appreciator that likes to draw lines,” he said. Young, 72, will be publicly displaying his work for the first time in 39 years of drawing starting this Saturday at Cannery Row Studios in Redondo Beach. The installation will be shared by friend and mentor, photographer Robi Hutas. The collection of 50 photo reproductions to be displayed was originally hand drawn by Young on 8-by-4-inch table napkins using razor-point pens as his primary tool, as well as found utensils, such as the sparkle pens donated to him by the girls at Good Stuff which inspired an entire series in 2002. “That’s the great thing about my work,” Young said, pointing to a crumpled napkin. “If I don’t like it…” At 18, Young had been a high school dropout for two years. Eager to get away from the small Illinois village of Westmont – nicknamed “Whiskey Hill”, he said, for its precarious balance of 12…
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