The Smith-Jones Checkerboard, 2012 / Digital C-print / 22 x 22 inches / edition of 12
Collection of Crocker Art Museum (CA)
Portrait (Hals), 2009 / Digital c-print / 40 x 30 inches
Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
American Varietal (US Population, by County, 1790-2000), 2009 / Encapsulated prints, 50 10' lights, electronics, five tons structural steel / 10' 6" x 40' 6" x 5'
Installed at the U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters (MD)
One Week Skin (ESPN-Vs), 2012 / Archival Inkjet / 70 x 53 inches / Ed 7 + 2 APs
Collection of the Norton Museum of Art (FL)
Wheel, 2012 / Archival Inkjet mounted to 1/4" gator-board
54 x 54 inches / edition of 7 + 2AP (starting at Ed. 3)
One Week Skin (CNN-Hs), 2012 / Archival Inkjet / 51 x 76.25 inches / Ed 7 + 2 APs
Impressionist Painting, 2010 / Digital C-print / 59 x 59 inches / Ed 7 + 2 APs
Generic Mammal Skull (13% baboon, 36% bear, 46% human, 5% wild boar), 2010
Digital C-print / 32 x 46 inches / Ed 7 + 2 AP
American Varietal (calyx), 2008 / digital c-print / 27 x 77 inches / edition of 7
American Varietal (filament), 2008 / digital c-print / 27 x 77 inches / edition of 7
City (southbound), 2008 / digital c-print / 60 x 48 inches / edition of 7
Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on the familiar. Though formally varied, his projects frequently manipulate the roles of individual elements derived from diverse visual populations. This often unearths unexpected patterns in the relationship between the part and the whole, the individual and the group. Reflecting a natural attraction to popular culture and the day-to-day, his work regularly incorporates the use of common references and source material. Often, the final compositions are exhibited as art objects – such as photographic prints and video installations – while others exist in a real-time software context.
Born in 1970 in Indianapolis, Salavon obtained his MFA from Art Institute Chicago (IL). He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Columbus, Washington D.C. Houston, Seattle, Cologne, Seoul, London, Geneva, Basel and Paris, among others, and been featured in exhibitions at venues such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Smithsonian Institution (D.C.), and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA). Salavon's work has been acquired for the public collections of the International Center of Photography (NY), Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), Museum of Fine Arts (TX), Museum of Contemporary Art (IL), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Columbus Museum of Art (OH), Cleveland Museum of Art (OH) and more. In 2013, he was named one of the "50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectible Artists" by Art + Auction Magazine. Salavon lives and works in Chicago, IL.
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