Jason Deary

NEW ARTIFACTS: Investigations and Explorations into Painted Typologies or Vocabularies Using Curatorial Methodologies and Thought

This thesis project is an exploration of contemporary painting
vocabularies. I am interested in ideas proposed by artists and critics that painting is its own language, one that exists outside of traditional written or spoken forms. Employing a related dialect, that of the curatorial or museological, I attempt to translate or unpack these languages for the viewer. My paintings are built through a two-stage process of heavy studio production, play, and material exploration. First, I execute a variety of painted marks, gestures and forms on sheet material to amass a collection. In the second phase of production, I pull from this self generated collection of painted moments to construct compositions reminiscent of an exhibition, adopting curatorial methodologies to construct paintings. Using the curatorial in a painting practice illustrates connections and collaborations across contemporary exhibition and production practices. The results of this investigation culminate in an exhibition of recent paintings, New Artifacts.