{"id":2607,"date":"2012-11-22T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:31:00","slug":"jeff-depner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/22\/jeff-depner\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Jeff Depner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid1_jeffdepner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2608\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/22\/jeff-depner\/reconfiguredgrid1_jeffdepner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid1_jeffdepner.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"794,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"reconfiguredgrid1_jeffdepner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid1_jeffdepner.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2608\" title=\"reconfiguredgrid1_jeffdepner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid1_jeffdepner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid1_jeffdepner.jpg 794w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid1_jeffdepner-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid1_jeffdepner-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In this ongoing series <em>Reconfigured Grid<\/em> from painter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffdepner.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Depner<\/a>, he well reconfigures the grid forming new shapes pointing your eye in every direction. Layering and pairing colors to trick the eye; his work inspires a modern twist on Bauhaus artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albersfoundation.org\/Albers.php?inc=Galleries&amp;i=J_1\" target=\"_blank\">Josef Albers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid2_8_jeffdepner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2609\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/22\/jeff-depner\/reconfiguredgrid2_8_jeffdepner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid2_8_jeffdepner.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1616,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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1024w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid2_8_jeffdepner-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid2_8_jeffdepner.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid14_20_jeffdepner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2610\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/22\/jeff-depner\/reconfiguredgrid14_20_jeffdepner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid14_20_jeffdepner.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1433,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"reconfiguredgrid14_20_jeffdepner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid14_20_jeffdepner-1024x571.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2610\" title=\"reconfiguredgrid14_20_jeffdepner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid14_20_jeffdepner-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid14_20_jeffdepner-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid14_20_jeffdepner-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid14_20_jeffdepner.jpg 1433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid30_32_jeffdepner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2611\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/22\/jeff-depner\/reconfiguredgrid30_32_jeffdepner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/reconfiguredgrid30_32_jeffdepner.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1880,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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Layering and pairing colors to trick the eye; his work inspires a modern twist on Bauhaus artist Josef Albers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,70],"tags":[37,125,422,424,1868,423],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-painting","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-jeff-depner","tag-josef-albers","tag-painting","tag-reconfigured-grid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-G3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8449,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/31\/swell-things-no-15\/","url_meta":{"origin":2607,"position":0},"title":"Swell Things No. 15","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"August 31, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"1. 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These large scale paintings incorporate a range of paint varieties such as egg tempera, oil and encaustic. I'm delighted by the busyness of each piece. 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