Jason Brockert

Cars, Houses, Roads, Parking Lots, Malls – these are the themes that I have chosen as representatives of our time. These objects and spaces of everyday life are ordinary and overlooked, yet, in many ways, possess an iconic status in the daily scheme. My interest lies in distilling these elements until only their most essential form remains. One car can represent every car and one parking lot will portray any parking lot. A car form becomes a character and those characters populate the canvases. Are we those characters, inevitably trapped
in the grid? Can we rise above it? In this atmosphere we are exposed to the possibilities of vastness, to a feeling of isolation, and also to a sense of hopefulness that carries the echo of our culture into the American Landscape.
An early inuence of watercolor and traditional training steers a creative process that is somewhat methodical
in nature. The watercolor inuence leads towards working layer upon layer of transparent paint that exposes
the history of choices made no matter what medium is used. I will work multiple layers well past the point of
usefulness and often need to resurrect a work with opaque paint, in essence starting the process over again.
Through all of this, my traditional training brings a constant challenge in dening a sense of light. I am
fascinated how a logical light source and appropriate color choices can make the most ambiguous forms have
emotional meanings as varied as the time of day. Often, I gravitate towards more atmospheric and contemplative
color worlds that suit my own sensibilities. Most often, I want to strike a balance between the old and the
new, the traditional and contemporary, transparent and opaque. This makes up my paintings

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