Jason Thompson – Relic

Description

Artist Statement

My paintings explore the tension between fragmentation and connection. I build each work through layers of color, gesture, texture, and repeated marks, allowing forms to emerge and disappear rather than settling into a fixed image. Curved forms, architectural shapes, organic marks, and dense passages of color collide and overlap, to create a rhythm that moves between intensity and quiet.
Texture is equally important to me. The surface carries evidence of revision: marks are covered, exposed again, and interrupted by new gestures. This accumulation gives the paintings a sense of time, as though each work contains traces of earlier moments beneath what is visible.
Rather than offering a single narrative, I want the paintings to remain open. They invite the viewer to move through their surfaces, discovering places where fragments can coexist and where disorder can become a form of visual harmony.