Today we’d like to introduce you to Jason Adkins.
Jason, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far.
I’ve been painting since I was a child. I’ve always enjoyed the feeling of the brush as an extension of my hand and of the paint as it glides and stutters across the canvas. As I got older, I experimented with a variety of paints and tools and realized one day that any tool can apply paint and that that tool has its own unique imprint, mostly abstract, that no one truly recognizes. I received my MFA from Claremont Graduate University, had my first solo show in L.A. in 2008 and I have been producing works and showing in galleries ever since. My favorite quote is one I said to my mother in 2008: “If I end up homeless painting with wet cat food with a stick-on cardboard, it’s my choice.” I paint every day, even if it is a small piece or just to experiment with color. I write my ideas down and execute them in my head first, then, on paper, then on canvas. I paint. Everyday.
Can you give our readers some background on your art?
I create a feeling, an inspiration through perspiration. My abstractions, ultimately, it is the gestures that are configured in some way, shape, or from that I wish the viewer to receive unknowingly. My scapes, be it sea or land, reflect in a similar way. They start off being normal in a way, then erupt with the chaos of the notion of the abstract works coming alive in a scene. My black and white works are more of a design, a repetitive pattern that wish to convey a cutting room film floor of the 70’s: excerpts of a variety of narratives inherited by the editing. These patterns have no relationship except the fact that they are all monochromatic.
What responsibility, if any, do you think artists have to use their art to help alleviate problems faced by others? Has your art been affected by issues you’ve concerned about?
I try and keep political changes and events out of my artwork. The investment in my art is very personal and it shows. I think the greatest relationship a collector can have to a piece is understanding that the artist is going through, not what the artist is collectively trying to achieve through local, nations, or international events.
What’s the best way for someone to check out your work and provide support?
You can go to my website, you can request a studio visit, you can look to see what group shows I’m in in the Phoenix area.
Contact Info:
- Website: http://jason-adkins.com
- Phone: 310-985-0807
- Email: jason@jason-adkins.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/throw_that_paint/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/throwthatpaint/
Image Credit:
Jason Adkins
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