Crazy 8 Art '07 > Jason Messinger

See artist's website for additional work: JasonMessingerArt.com
Artist Jason Messinger creates ceramic art that straddles the cool allure of pure abstraction and the hot recognition of representation. Approaching ceramic tile with a painter's concerns and a sculptors experience, the artist 's multi-tile works are designed to be modular, allowing any arrangement and in any sequence. Mounting system allows the owner to reset the mural, thus reset the 'narratives'. Using a variety of techniques, the artist makes letters dance into and out of comprehension; turns clock-work gears into vast constructions of complexity; re-imagines the most mundane and pragmatically derived utility poles into startling signifiers of organic beauty, and turns circles into burning suns. The artist's sculptures twist and turn with organic yearning and figurative sensibilities. They move in our eye as they are approached from different angles, making the static mobile, and the frozen flow.

SOLD Nine Letterfields
ceramic tile, glaze, cherry wood frame backers
dimensions variable, nine components, each 13" square with frame
2007
SOLD Novas II
ceramic, glaze, wood frame backers
set of 9 -12"x12" tiles; dimensions variable, shown 44" x 44"
2007
SOLD Sky Rings
ceramic, glaze, wooden frame
dimensions variable, 9 12"sq. tiles, shown 44" x 44"
2008
SOLD Novas I
ceramic tile, glaze, wooden frqame backers
12 -8" sq. tiles; dimensions variable, shown 31" x 31"
2007
SOLD Urban Sentinels
ceramic, glaze, wooden frame
dimensions variable, 24 8"sq tiles
2007
SOLD 24 Urban Sentinels - detail shot B
ceramic, glaze, wooden frame
dimensions variable, 24 8"sq tiles
2007
Blueprint
carved ceramic, underglaze, glaze, wooden frame
12" x 12"
2007
$650
SOLD Coming Home
carved ceramic, underglaze, glaze, wooden frame
12" x 12"
2007
SOLD Silver Gears -pair
ceramic, glaze, wooden frame
24" X 12"
2007
SOLD Ripples
carved ceramic, metalic glaze, wooden frame
12" x 12"
2007
SOLD - Waves
carved ceramic, metalic glaze, wooden frame
12" x 12"
2007
SOLD - RNS
ceramic tile, glaze, wooden frqame backers
12" x 12"
2007
SOLD - Black Magic
ceramic, glaze, wooden frame
12" x 12"
2007
SOLD - Red Magic
ceramic, glaze
12"x12"
2007
SOLD - RAW
ceramic tile, glaze, wooden frqame backers
12"x12"
2007
SOLD - RAY
ceramic tile, glaze, wooden frqame backers
12" x 12"
2007
SOLD - JAX
ceramic tile, glaze, wooden frqame backers
12" x 12"
2007
SOLD - KOM
ceramic tile, glaze, wooden frqame backers
12" x 12"
2007
SOLD - POM
ceramic tile, glaze, wooden frame backers
12" x 12"
2007
SOLD - WAG
ceramic tile, glaze, wooden frqame backers
12" x 12"
2007