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Jason Stout
HATS FOR BATS, FLAMES FOR NAMES - Bold, Surrealist, Cubist Oil Painting, Purple

2017

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This piece by Jason Stout is one of his "Cloud Paintings," depicting a whirling mass of objects suspended in a cloud. In this painting we see many items that comment on the turbulence in America surrounding police brutality and white supremacy. A confederate flag hat is suspended in the air adjacent to a policeman's cap. Multiple hands stick out from the cloud holding guns, Molotov cocktails and lighters. A baton swings wildly through the chaos. A reductive urban landscape dominates the lower portion of the painting. Purple outlines surround a blue and yellow cloud in this surreal spacescape. Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2004. Stout’s work visually deals with elements of formal and figurative abstraction, while exploring such themes as power, history, and identity, especially through the guise of southern culture. His work exists in several private and public collections, including the University of West Georgia, Jacksonville State University, and the University of Tennessee at Martin. During his career he has participated in several solo exhibitions and has been a part of several group exhibitions as well. Stout has won several scholarships and individual awards for his work. He is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee at Martin and is represented by REM gallery in San Antonio, Texas and Circuitous Succession Gallery in Memphis Tennessee. Stout was recently named TAEA Higher Education Art Educator of the Year for 2015-16 and Best of Show (featured artist) for the Art of the South 2016 exhibition. Stout was also a 2017-2018 recipient of the Bob and Wilma Smith Award for Outstanding Faculty Scholarship at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Artist Statement: My current body of work deals with the idea of the modern landscape, both formally and conceptually. In this series idyllic semi abstract representations of a natural environment exist. These landscapes are however altered by human’s existence, even though often no figure is visibly present. Oil derricks and bore holes co-exist with trees, bushes, and mountains, slowly taking over their position. In the foreground the top layer of earth is peeled back, exposing the polluted after effects of fracking and the water contamination that follows. An eerily placed path crawls through the composition as a metaphor for exploring a dangerous road ahead. Cloud compositions deal with the idea of conflict and turbulence, both domestic and abroad. These clouds also double as nebulas, contracting and expanding energy around the idea of conflict. These works deal with notions of political strife coexisting with environmental concerns, and create compositions of smaller troubled environments coexisting in larger yet equally troubled ones. There are fragmented figurative elements existing in and outside of these clouds, as well as tools, weapons, and vices. These fragments serve as visual metaphors that address specific narratives from our modern time.
  • Creator:
    Jason Stout (1977, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2017
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 40 in (101.6 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
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    Framing Options Available
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  • Gallery Location:
    Signal Mountain, TN
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU98517565952
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