Exhibition · Asher Grey Gallery · Other
Jason Graves My recent paintings explore the space between landscape, memory, and spiritual discovery. Through intuitive arrangements of architectural forms, desert flora, pathways, circles, and repeated marks, I create imagined maps of an inner world. Earth colors connect the work to the desert, while vivid accents suggest energy and illumination. The paintings invite viewers to slow down, enter their mysterious spaces, and contemplate their own passage from uncertainty toward enlightenment. About the Artist Jason Graves Jason Graves has been an artist since he could hold a pencil. He was admonished in his early years for drawing instead of paying attention in class. Fortunately, he found kindred spirits during his high school years and was accepted into the Georgia State College program for gifted young artists. While attending Pratt Institute in New York, he studied with Edward Dugmore and Jake Berthot, both luminaries of the New York abstract school. With the encouragement of these teachers Graves found his muse in the exploration of figure translated into abstract forms, which he has followed since. Graves has exhibited at numerous galleries and venues in New York and California.