Jason Bryant at the Raandesk Gallery of Art, In Good Company, NY, Sept 18 - Nov 21

Exhibition Description:

"Someday, Maybe, Never" includes a collection of 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. Bryant's work is inspired by film and comic book images from childhood. He dramatically crops his images to create a more dynamic perspective, often putting the viewer intimately close to his subjects, often close enough to see individual hairs or the smallest detail on a shirt collar. Jason Bryant's 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, he obscures the subject's full features in order to draw ones focus to the dimensionality of the surfaces that he creates with 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.

Bryant is a prolific artist whose paintings and drawings have been exhibited at numerous solo and group shows at galleries and venues including: The Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, North Carolina; The Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska; Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, California; The James E. Lewis Fine Arts Museum, and The Contemporary Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland; Tribes Gallery, New York City and Gallery 32 in London, England.

Description:

Image: Someday Maybe Never
40 x 60
oil on canvas

Jason Bryant graduated with a BFA in painting at East Carolina University followed by an MFA from the Mt. Royal School of Art Graduate program at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating, Bryant moved to Brooklyn, NY to further his skills, and became an assistant to noted portrait artist Kehinde Wiley. His work has been featured in Direct Art Magazine, New Art International, and NY Arts magazine.

Full Contact Details:

Where: In Good Company, 16 West 23rd Street, 4th Floor, Manhattan, New York, NY
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am-8pm, Saturday and Sunday by appointment