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.
Upcoming Webinar
PAINTING LIVE.
March 12 through April 30, 2020
A webinar offering. Join Jordan Wolfson as he paints in his studio – engaging in his own personal work directly. This webinar will follow and track how Jordan begins and develops his painting – not as a demonstration for a student exercise but in a forthright and sustained engagement with his own personal painting practice. In addition to attending to the development and working of the painting, Jordan will be open to Q&A and dialogue related to the work in progress in an ongoing way.
Ireland Workshop
LANDSCAPE: DRAWING AS SOURCE
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation
July 28 – August 5, 2020
Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland
Exploring the relationship between drawing and oil painting through the motif of landscape. How can drawing inform and enrich my painting practice? What may I discover about my way as a painter by experimenting through the practice of drawing? Working outdoors with a variety of means and ways of drawing – we will explore how to take attitudes found in drawing and bring them into our painting. Risk and play will be encouraged.
Ballycastle is magic.
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 […]