Emotional nuances of Jason’s work seem to time stamp the goings on of the subject’s past, revealing multiple movements of his subject on a singular canvas. Jason delivers a cohesive vision uniting two disparate worlds of contemporary painting rooted in abstraction and figurative. Art collectors, curators, institutions, critics and writers actively celebrate Jason’s consistent growth as a leading contemporary:

Shana Nys Dambrot, art critic who has appeared in Modern Painters, ARTnews, Juxtapoz and the managing Los Angeles editor of Flavorpill.com, introduces Jason’s monograph, Undertow: “In Alexander’s compositions, convincingly rendered, almost preternaturally keen observations of the physical world are infused with specific emotional content… He’s
succeeding with the most recent paintings to merge those facets of his practice together; to force a collusion between them, the better to more fully describe a feeling rather than an event — or more precisely, to narrate several different
events in a longer story all at once.”

Dennis, fine art collector, contributes,“You cannot own one of Jason Shawn Alexander’s paintings; it owns you. His work is of our time and yet timeless. It has a rawness that can be perceived by all our senses. He takes us to the most inconvenient places and we cannot help but to embrace them while keeping our distance for its presence is a powerful earthquake.” Sloan Schaffer, dedicated to emerging and established narrative painters and 101/exhibit founder writes: “Jason’s work deeply penetrates immediately, directly to the core of integrity; often depicting figurative imagery, wretched in hyper-critical spaces — where mind, body and spirit hangs in the balance of existential woe.”