PAST EXHIBITION

Jason Bryant: Someday, Maybe, Never

September 18, 2008—November 21, 2008

"Someday, Maybe, Never" is a collection of Bryant's latest works, including large scale oil paintings and smaller, more intricate portraits, with clothing and features deftly captured in a highly realistic style that evokes a film still or a slice of a photo.  Inspired by film and comic book images from childhood, Bryant dramatically crops his images to create a more dynamic perspective, often putting the viewer intimately close to his subjects – close enough to see individual hairs or the smallest detail on a shirt collar.   His portraits have been described as "freeze frames…with…natural-looking fuzzy colors and blurry outlines," by J. Bowers of the Baltimore City Paper.

Though Bryant's subjects are often celebrities and models, the images he depicts are more about the figure with full features obscured enough to draw the focus to the dimensionality of the surfaces that he creates with just paint and colored pencil.  Working directly from an image onto the canvas or paper, he achieves depth, texture and richness that is often startling to the viewer.  His simple representations compliment many settings from contemporary to transitional and in mixed rooms with eclectic furnishings and other works of art.

A Gallery Talk with the Artist is set for Saturday, October 4th from 12noon at In Good Company.  Led by Raandesk Gallery Founder and Director Jessica L. Porter, the artist will share his inspiration behind his images and discuss his painting and drawing processes to achieve his style.

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