Jason Middlebrook
Nine Ways to Get Your Groove On
acrylic on maple
14” x 21” x 1”
$ 18,000.
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Jason Middlebrook
Two Views Using Light
acrylic on maple and walnut
12” x 16” x 1.125”
2017
$ 12,000.
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Jason Middlebrook
Seven Paintings Filling One Space
acrylic on curly maple
19.5” x 17.5” x 1”
2015
$ 12,000.
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Jason Middlebrook
Red Folded Corner
acrylic on maple
20” x 19.5” x 1.125”
2017
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Jason Middlebrook
Jason Middlebrook imbues natural forms and found objects with references to the foremost abstractionists of the 20th century. He is best known for the carved and hewn tree trunks he uses as canvases for geometric composition, variously referencing works by Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, or Frank Stella—a jarring yet elegant juxtaposition of natural unpredictability with rigidly calculated forms. Middlebrook has also turned concrete-cast bottles into corner-spill assemblages, and crafted mobiles of wooden scraps that pay explicit homage to the seminal works of Alexander Calder.
The realms of nature and culture mix very satisfactorily in the work of Jason Middlebrook. The artist lives in the Hudson River valley and employs ingeniously carpentered slabs and strips of local wood — maple, ash, elm, walnut, poplar — for the irregularly shaped ‘canvases’ for his painting. He describes these as "a skin that I lay over the top of nature, somewhat like a sidewalk or a parking lot"..
Mid-career artist Jason Middlebrook, who lives and works in Hudson, New York, is the subject of an elegant single-artist show titled Drawing Time at David B. Smith Gallery. This is Middlebrook’s first solo at the gallery, but his work has been exhibited nationally for over twenty years and acquired for important art collections across the country, including that of the Denver Art Museum. Despite the reference to “drawing” in the exhibit’s title, the pieces at Smith are actually paintings...
Craters of the Moon is an exhibition in two parts, one at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve near Arco, Idaho, and one at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Ketchum, Idaho. The project celebrates a uniquely Western environment. Located in Idaho about an hour’s drive from Sun Valley, Craters of the Moon National Monument is...
From the floors of ancient Pompeii to the walls of the New York subway, mosaics have been a feature of urban life for thousands of years. Beloved by hobbyists and DIYers, these assemblages, typically created by arranging pieces of glass or stone, are often categorized merely as craft, reducing their appeal to artists who would prefer to avoid those associations...
This new installation in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art’s Eunice and Julian Cohen Galleria offers a contemporary spin on landscape art. Ten works, including sculptures, paintings, installation, and video art, present contemporary art as the latest chapter in the story of landscape art through the ages, as told by the MFA’s encyclopedic collection. Works include a number of new acquisitions that have never before been on view, as well as new commissions by Jason Middlebrook and Anne Lindberg...
