Photo by Madeline Brice
Weinberger Fine Art is pleased to announce its representation of Kansas City based painter Jason Needham. WFA will feature the artist’s work for the first time this fall in his first solo exhibition with the gallery, more details to come.
Jason has had a long-standing interest in impressionism, post-impressionism, and early American modernists like Marsden Hartley, David Hockney, Neil Welliver, Alex Katz, and Lois Dodd, which is evident in his purposefully placed color blocks and unexpected compositions. He’s drawing and painting scenes that are very familiar to him: still life or interior compositions taken from his home, forest scenes just off the beaten path, or a pocket of woods near an interstate. He claims that the trick is to see these mundane moments as majestic while allowing the mistakes of the hand and misconceptions of the eye to be as present as the purposeful. He likes the paintings to coalesce from a distance but upon close inspection fall apart into marks, emphasizing the process of making, with the underlaying scaffolding of the image still visible. Each brushstroke becomes a single particle and the painting a wave of time-space.
Later the Same Sun, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in, $4,500 ($450 a month)
Star Turn, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in, $4,500 ($450 a month)
Whether he’s standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon or staring into the corner of a room, the investment in looking is the same. On one end, he’s working areas of the brain that lie deeper than the surface stream of thoughts, the self-narrating voice. On the other end, he’s pondering the fundamental structure of reality.
Jason has been hard at work producing several new large-scale works that will be included in his fall solo show. We are very excited to welcome him to the WFA family.
Contact art@weinbergerfineart.com with inquiries.
