Jason Willaford returns with a site-specific installation for In Stitches. Comprised of sections of vinyl billboard created over the last year (referred to by the artist as zooids in reference to their function as a singular unit in larger colonies), the large scale works revisit Willaford’s early interest in figurative movement. Loosely anthropomorphic figures tower above viewers and wrap around corners, appearing to run or stretch its limbs above its head. Various color palettes reflect changing approaches to the sewn constructions throughout the year they were completed over. Floating from the wall, the installation forms dramatic shadows and inhabits the space in a unique way.
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The works from this exhibition have been created as a site specific installation, with pricing upon request.
Individual units, or “zooids”, are available for purchase. Multiple units can also be acquired to create larger pieces or site-specific installations.
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“Over nearly the last decade, my work with repurposed vinyl has remained largely abstract. In this installment, however, I am taking my quilted sections and intentionally creating gestural figures that revisit an early infatuation with the human figure and movement. This site-specific installation captures forms that appear to exhibit a range of gestures and reactions, from surprise and celebration to retreat and “hands up don’t shoot.””
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Jason Willaford received his BFA from Florida State University where he studied under Jim Roche and Color Field painter Trevor Bell. After years as an encaustic painter in Marfa, Texas, he shifted his focus to vinyl-based constructions, which were exhibited in a solo exhibition at Oklahoma Contemporary in 2014. In the summer of 2015, Willaford participated in a residency at the former home and studio of Elaine de Kooning in East Hampton, NY and presented the resulting body of work in a solo show at Dallas Contemporary that fall. Willaford was commissioned by Green Box Arts Festival in 2019 to create their public billboard art installation. In 2020, his vinyl works were exhibited as an installation at SPRING/BREAK Art Fair NY. Willaford’s work can be found in over 200 private and the public collections, including Bloomingdales, Toyota, and Neiman Marcus, among others. He lives and works in Dallas, TX.