GALLERI URBANE

Jason Willaford
Taking Liberties

04.05.2024 through 05.05.2024

Taking Liberties, an exhibition of paintings by multimedia artist Jason Willaford. For Willaford, the show represents an intentional return to traditional, narrative painting after 20 years. The artist has decided to conceal the artwork from social media and to the public until opening day, so please join us for the reveal!

Using large brushes and his entire arm in a dynamic, visceral bravura, the artist builds — in thick impasto — a bright mosaic-like surface that eschews local color and highlights his singular way of demarcating zones of dark and light. “It’s kind of the way I see the world,” Willaford says, “seeing in highlights and shadows” — a perception intrinsically linked to the training the eye receives through hunting and fishing: the glimmering of water that catches the light; the reflections on foliage among trees. “I’m not trying to create an illusion through shading and blending.”

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