Jason Wheatley: Language of the Birds
Upcoming exhibition
Overview
I dabble in the absurd and make it accessible and beautiful at the same time...I want people to feel like they have stumbled onto a riddle. They don't have to figure it out, just know that something is taking place. -Jason Wheatley
Jason Wheatley’s first solo exhibition, Language of the Birds, features surreal and dreamlike still life paintings that explore our relationship to fantastical ideas and recognizable imagery. Embracing the illustrative style of John James Audubon’s famed avion paintings, Wheatley deploys realist and absurdist sensibilities to each still life. Filled with metaphor, and riddles each canvas demonstrates a contemporary sense of humor and folly. Through repetition and practice Wheatley paints from both memory and life, the oddities that are found throughout his body of work counterweigh the classical rendering in oil.
