Jason Revok
Spiro_MonoP_8/21_10
2021
Hand-printed monotype on Saunders Waterford HP High White 100% cotton 300lb 600gsm
91 × 91 cm
Unique
Location: Paris, France
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About the artwork
This black and grey rosette on a neon yellow background is a spirographic composition by artist Jason Revok, displaying near-perfect geometry and bearing a scientific-sounding name. Its raw, meditative appearance reflects the artist's approach to developing systematic yet imperfect tools. Indeed, he has designed a large-scale spirograph with an outer ring fixed to the wall, allowing a smaller gear, containing the paint pot, to move inside the perimeter and create a canvas. Part of the "Spiro_MonoP_8/21" series of monotypes featuring single prints in different colors, this work is a continuation of his earlier Spirograph series. While Jason Revok claims the influence of geometric abstraction and minimalism, he disrupts the motif by introducing drips.
Expert opinion
This spirographic composition by Jason Revok is characteristic of the artist's work, which oscillates between urban art and minimalism, even verging on 1960s optical art.
About the artist
Born in 1977 in Riverside, California, Jason Revok lives and works in Detroit, Michigan. Self-taught, he began his artistic practice in the world of graffiti, before devoting himself to a studio practice, exploring and evolving both his creative processes and artistic concepts. Although he has retained certain emblematic elements of graffiti in his contemporary work, such as modest materials and his name, his studio work has enabled him to create large-scale tools to assist him in creation and in his reinterpretation of minimalist art, which established precise patterns that removed the subjectivity of the hand. Jason Revok's work has been exhibited in museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Pasadena Museum of California Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit. His work has also been shown in international galleries, including the Martin Asbæk Gallery in Copenhagen in 2020 and the Saatchi Gallery in London in 2023.
“I'm not trying to do abstract expressionism, it's just something different, almost more banal, but more honest and pure at the same time.”
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