Representational paintings with a cubist twist...

I draw from both abstract and representational traditions in painting, fashioning compositions which are meditations on the time and place that I am in. My paintings are presented as a vehicle for reflection by the viewer. By turning the canvas as I work, I reinforce the design value of representational imagery, undermining a static reading of the works.

I start painting a single color or fade over the entire surface imposing a compositional unity and furthering the illusion of depth, generally I then paint a traditionally abstract layer of paint over the canvas informing it with Kandinskian ideas of emotionality and sub-representational content. As in conventional abstract expressionist practice the composition grows as a reaction to former marks. My imagery comes from personal snapshots and is chosen to allow for a depth and breadth of associations. I don't want the images to make sense in implied space with each other, I want them to be seen as independent and isolated, only in that way can my compositions demand from the viewer to be made sense of and that is what I really want; to present something that demands to be made sense of but stubbornly resists becoming definite. This to me is a representation of the vagueness and ambiguity which is my real experience of the world, the construction of narrative being the fancy of the mind.

Jason Starkie

Education
1987-91 San Francisco Art Institute, Prof Sam Tchakalian

Solo Exhibitions
2012 "Solo Exhibition," ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
2011"JASON STARKIE @ HOTBOX," Ada Gallery, Richmond, Va
2000 "Painted Pictures," Silverstein Gallery, New York
1995 "New Work," Linda Cannon Gallery, Seattle

Group Exhibitions
2010 Featured Artists, SAM Gallery, Seattle
2008 "New York in Exile," Carla Bayle, France
2007 "I Will Never Make It," D21, Leipzig Germany
2007 "Group Show,"Ada Gallery, Richmond Va
2006 "Dance Video Video Dance," Monkey Town, Brooklyn
2005 "Reconfigure," Pierogi, Brooklyn
2005 "Popped," Sputnik, Brooklyn Art Fairs
1995 "New Work," Linda Cannon Gallery, Seattle
1994 "Group Show," Linda Cannon Gallery
Art Fairs
2006 Scope Miami, Ada Gallery
2006 Scope London, Ada Gallery

Residencies
2009 PA-F, St. Erme, France

Bibliography
2012 Cover Art, Fjords, Richmond, Va., cover

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