Jason Brown Bio

Jason Brown is an American Artist who uses myriad industrial painting and signage tropes to present and unmask the empty spaces beneath carefully choreographed social roleplays. Lifting content from stock images and internet catalog models that show up in our daily algorithms, Brown uses the concept of the shroud or the vessel as a kind of mask, worn to protect and also imprison the wearer. His subjects cut a swath through the entirety of contemporary culture, instantly recognizable and yet somehow remaining anonymous and ambiguous.

Too specific to be purely archetypes, his figures are ghosts or NPCS that walk silently amongst the living. Ubiquity, conformity & banality counterbalance his colors which are overly saturated collectively creating landmarks or mile markers in the diaspora of social media and consumer culture. Cosplay, roleplay and fetish are subtle punches in the vanilla landscape. He is not engaged so much in collating art history as he is seeking  a reductive lens to expose and obfuscate human social existence.

Spray gloss on aluminum, vinyl stencils, freehand airbrush and Bondo are used in an elite production scheme to justify the seam that can never be fully blended between two individuals or two separate states of being. These are pure painting experiences meant to force the viewer to self-reflect within a simulation that increasingly values dwelling on its surface.

Born in 1974, in Jackson Florida, Jason currently lives and works in Brooklyn NYC.