'Nature Parts (Pine Needles)' by Jason Middlebrook
'Nature Parts (Pine Needles)' by Jason Middlebrook
Nature Parts (Pine Needles), 2022 by Jason Middlebrook.
Signed. A one-of-a-kind sculpture in Elm, acrylic paint. H. 18” x W. 11” x D. 5.5”.
“I’ve always been drawn to parts. Parts that when combined make something whole. Nature parts are what we are, and it’s the parts that interests me” — Jason Middlebrook
Jason Middlebrook (b. 1966 in Jackson, MI) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990 from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1994 from the San Francisco Art Institute. He also participated in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY in 1994-1995, and completed an Iaspis Residency in Stockholm, Sweden in 2009-2010. He gathers his creative inspiration from both nature and technology, transferring their complex relationship into works of sculpture, installation, painting, large-scale drawing — and now furniture. His work is frequently a collision of nature, art making, and history.
Recent solo exhibitions include “Light Lines,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming); Galleria Gianpaolo Abbondio, Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi 7, Todi, Italy (forthcoming); “Skies,” David Smith Gallery, Denver, CO; “Another World,” Moss Arts Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blackburg, VA; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA; LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA; Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY; “The Last Tree on the Planet,” Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; “My Grain,” Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy; “Drawing Time,” David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO; “Time Compression Keeps Me Coming Back for More,” Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; “The Small Spaces in Between,” Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA; “Nature Builds/We Cover,” Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY; “Your General Store,” New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; “Gold Rush,” Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM; “Jason Middlebrook: Mosaic Tree Stumps,” Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY; and Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY.
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Portrait by Martin Crook
Read more about Jason Middlebrook here.
Jason Middlebrook (b. 1966 in Jackson, MI) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, in 1990, from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and his Master of Fine Arts degree, in 1994, from the San Francisco Art Institute. He also participated in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, in 1994–1995, and completed an Iaspis Residency in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2009–2010. He gathers his creative inspiration from both nature and technology, transferring their complex relationship into works of sculpture, installation, painting, large-scale drawing — and now furniture. His work is frequently a collision of nature, art making, and history.
Recent solo exhibitions include “Another World,” Moss Arts Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA; LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA; Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY; “The Last Tree on the Planet,” Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; “My Grain,” Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy; “Drawing Time,” David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO; “The Small Spaces in Between,” Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA; “Your General Store,” New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; “Gold Rush,” Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM; “Jason Middlebrook: Mosaic Tree Stumps,” Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY; Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY; “There is a map in every tree,” Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL; “Line over Matter,” Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; “Submerged,” SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; “The Line That Divides Us,” Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; “My Landscape,” Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; and “Underlife,” Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.