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Painting as a Practice.
In its myriad variety of touch and form, Painting embodies and expresses Consciousness. This ancient and contemporary activity interweaves our awareness and reveals our inherent interbeing.
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Upcoming Exhibition
Works on Paper
Opening: Arts Project 101, December 6, 2019
December 6th – December 29th, 2019Jordan Wolfson will be exhibiting recent, and archived, small works on paper. Exploring various motifs including landscape, interiors, still life and the figure, the drawings span a range of development, as Wolfson delves into and unpacks a given situation. The works incorporate a range of media, including graphite, charcoal, ink and most recently, watercolor.
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Workshop
Abstraction – Landscape as Source
The Armory Art Center
March 2 – March 5 2020
811 Park Place
West Palm Beach, Florida 33401Jordan Wolfson will be giving a workshop at The Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Armory’s Visiting Master Artist Workshop Series brings together participants and contemporary master artists from all over the country for unparalleled educational experiences. This workshop will explore both plein air painting and the process of abstraction.
Works
Between Form & Non-Form
Jordan Wolfson is a contemporary artist investigating the relationships between perception, marking, and consciousness through the lens of observational representation. ‘What is presence and how does it become embodied in pictorial form?’ ‘What is the nature of this human depth-activity we call painting?’
Teaching
The Craft, Art & Way of Painting
Perception, Marking, Awareness
In a local sense, The Painting Project is an artist’s studio and the location, in Boulder, Colorado, of instruction in the art of painting. In the largest sense, The Painting Project is the contemporary and ancient human engagement with hand-made marking and imagery — in which this instruction is playing its small but necessary part.
Our focus is on the classical and modern traditions of drawing and oil painting, within the context of our contemporary situation and currents. We are committed to the enduring power of painting as a depth human activity which affords an indispensable exploration of ways of being.
Concurrences
A Contemporary Form For Art’s Reception
A “Concurrence” is an hour-long event designed for communal reception and sharing of visual art. Inspired by Slow Art Day, a Concurrence is a contemporary form working to recontextualize visual art back towards its mythic and ritual origins of communal meaning and nurturance.
Tapistry
An Online Painting Collaborative
What if a painting isn’t just a painting? What if a painting actually is a catalyst, an interface, of an energetic exchange between the painter and the viewer? What if a painting, in truth, is a transmitter of the essential human experience of being?
Tapistry is an online painting collaborative that recontextualizes painting, not philosophically, but actually.
Recent Writings & Presentations
Writing
Marking the Infinite and Other Essential Tasks
Here are a some things I’ve wanted to share, some images and thoughts, inspired by a couple of recent exhibitions: “…the purpose of an artist is to reveal this presence of consciousness through the medium of the senses. So in this respect the artist has a special responsibility. A mystic’s job is to explore the […]
Reviews
Review: Jordan Wolfson’s Magnificent Obsession at 808 Projects
Painter Jordan Wolfson is an artist’s artist, which is clear in his marvelous solo, Song Cycle with Blue Cloth (abridged): Paintings by Jordan Wolfson, now on display at 808 Projects.