Jason John

Born: 1980, Detroit, Michigan

 

Jason John is a painter working in the style of psychological realism. His goal is to present the viewer with a decisive moment of a larger more sinister narrative. Jason’s work deals with issues of control and submission within our American society.

My interest as an artist is related to how people look back into his or her past to retrieve memories of certain situations. Depending on the situation the individual has experienced can drastically alter the shape of a person’s memory and furthermore, a person’s identity. As a painter and draftsman, I represent particular memory situations from my own life. Some or all of the figures are partially concealed by a vale or mask. By concealing the identity of an individual takes away the personal narrative and identity attached to the represented individual or individuals. My artwork is meant to represent each individual or group of individuals in a memory fragment that has been shifted and altered by time and situation. ...