About
Jason is the recipient of the Shell-NAC Scholarship and completed his Masters Degree in Fine Art at Parsons School of Design in New York 2006. He was a studio fellow at the Whitney Museum independent study program and has founded his own artist-run space called Grey Projects. Jason has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions including at the Singapore Art Museum, the Chelsea Art Museum, Peer Gallery (New York), and the Singapore Biennale 2006. He is a photographer and visual artist working in Singapore and New York. The works currently with Give Art are from his Captain's Log and Ruins series which have been exhibited at Utterly Art Gallery, Singapore Art Museum, Valentine Willie (Kuala Lumpur) and the NUS Museum and at Christie's auction of Southeast Asian contemporary art 2009 in Hong Kong. The Image Captain's Log - Coast of Malaysia is created by using image-rendering software from a number of realistic photographic images of landscapes. The work invites you into these stunning landscapes and asks you whether you dreamt them or whether they can be placed on a map. The work blurs the line between reality and fiction, adding another dimension to the beauty and tranquillity of the images. Referring to his Ruins: Captain's Log Entries on Days with No End series completed whilst in Australia on a residency at Artspace Visual Arts Centre in Sydney, Jason comments :
"These are mood pieces, studies of the shifts in light, following the horizon as it descends down the retina. This is what I imagine it might be like to be on a ship far from land, far from any markers of habitation, season, or location. All I see is sunlight, ocean and sky. Any hope of safe landing is ruined by the distance. The voyage becomes keyed to small changes in the horizon. On a ship like this, I would imagine that it would be hard to keep my eyes open."
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