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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO & 2 PERSON SHOWS:
2011, 4/1–5/17 Jason
Messinger, Center On Halsted,
Chicago, IL
2010, 3/4-4/18
Symbols&Sympathies,
GoggleWorks Center Arts,
Reading,PA
2009, 5/7-6/6 The Travel
Blooms, Eyeporium Gallery,
Chicago, IL
2006, 11/3 - 24 Urban Legends,
August House, Chicago, IL
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Artist Galleries:
http://JasonMessingerArt.com
http://Crazy8Art.com
http://www.outsiderfolkart.com/
index.html...
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Artist Reviews:
Jason Messinger: It's A Wild
Thing
- solo show catalog excerpt by
Chris Youngs,
Freedman Gallery, Albright
College, 2004
"Wassily Kandinsky is commonly
considered to be the first
artist to create purely
abstract work. This is, of
course, a Western notion,
ignoring the abstract patterns
traditionally found in
carpets, tiles ...
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Collections:
CORPORATE/PUBLIC
Chicago Public
Library:Austin-Irving,
Chicago, IL
Deloitte Chicago, IL
Lisle Hilton Hotel
Lisle, IL
Raddison Lexington Hotel
New York City , NY
Shriner's ChildrenŐs Hospital
Oak Park, IL
Sweet Street Desserts
Reading, PA
Tianjin Goldin Metropolitan
Hotel, Tianjin, China
Werner Design Assoc.
San Francisco, CA
RENOWN ...
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Commissions:
Select Commissions & Sales
2011 Seasons, Trier Design,
for Sarasota Florida Corp.
office
2011 Fields and Streams,
Trier Design, for Utah Corp.
office
2011 Asian Tour, Trier
Design, for Wisconsin
Corporate Office
2011 Sympathies, Trier
Design, for Wisconsin
Corporate office
2011 Novas IV, Soho Myriad
for Chicago Marriott, Ohare
2011 Birds ...
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Artist Statement for Jason Messinger
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Jason Messinger creates ceramic art that straddles the cool allure of pure abstraction and the hot recognition of representation. The artist approaches ceramic tile with a painter's concerns and a sculptor's experience. His multi-tile works are designed to be modular, allowing any configuration and sequence of the tiles. Mounting systems allows the owner to change the tiles, and thus reset the 'narratives'. Using a variety of techniques, the artist makes letters dance in and out of comprehension, re-imagines pragmatically designed utility poles into startling signifiers of organic beauty, turns clock-work gears into constructions of complexity, carves static clay into moving waves and ripples, and transforms simple circles into burning suns. His work pulls the viewer into square windows that look out onto his unique visions of the world.
Messinger's sculptures are solidly present, while expressly fluid. The work explores transformations, of motion made structural. The sculptures change appearance with the viewers' perspective. Each face of the work functions like movements of a dance, with unexpected turns. One side a facade for the other, a mask, a response, to create a circular narrative of motion and stillness, conversation and emotion. The glazes present a range of tonalities against the form's structure. Reflections emphasize the changing forms, while colored patterns pull the eye from depth to surface. The sculptures are abstract but with a figurative sensibility. This work explores the fuzzy borders between representation and abstraction, identity and design, meaning and beauty.
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