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Painting as a Life 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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A Pre-recorded Self-Paced Course
PAINTING WITH STILLNESS
Ongoing and Online. The two goals of technical mastery and present-moment awareness strengthen, reinforce, and support each other as our painting practice develops and deepens.
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An Experiential Inquiry --
Power and Presence: A Handbook for Painting in Our Time
Part social discourse, part spiritual investigation, and part hands-on painting manual, Power and Presence: A Handbook for Painting in Our Time offers an in-depth exploration of the essential nature of painting, and why it may be of critical importance for our civilization.
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?’
Next Class
GROUP CRIT – Fall 2026, online
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
The Mentoring Program
The Mentoring Structure is designed to support painters as they strengthen and deepen their own unique painting practice. Through ongoing one-on-one meetings with Jordan, painters clarify for themselves what they truly care about in their painting – both in terms of content – the motifs, meanings and purpose – as well as how they choose to work – their formal engagement with paint. Meetings include formal critiques and attunement with work, as well as conversation and strategies related to inner and outer concerns – challenges, obstacles and successes. Included as well are inquiries into relevant artists, both present and past, as well as readings, essays and books, focusing on each painter’s individual path.
Recent Writings & Presentations
Book
PAINTING and CONSCIOUSNESS: A Book.
This book is a mix of various thoughts and musings — part inquiry into the relationship of painting and Consciousness, and part, in light of that inquiry, practical and pedagogical […]
Book
POWER and PRESENCE: A Handbook for Painting in Our Time
“Today to try to paint the existent is an act of resistance instigating hope.” John Berger Reading these words in the bookstore of the Tate Modern over twenty years ago led […]