Untitled (P-1636), 2016. Image courtesy of the artist.

Jason Karolak: Night Vision
June 29 – September 10, 2017
@ BMoCA

Transforming linear mark-making into an experience of dimensional form, New York artist Jason Karolak paints structures of repeating geometric and curvilinear configurations in vivid florescent hues on rich matte black backgrounds.

Relating to the human body in space and often at a grand scale, the work creates illusory shifts as the eye follows each boldly-painted registration. The tension between structural necessity and ideal form is continually renewed as Karolak’s mysterious armatures hover and glow within their inky darkness. The artist’s architectonic yet organic frameworks are further supported by their vibrant overlapping brushwork on dark ground with its underlying layer of pure charged color. As a parallel investigation, yet born of alternating vocabularies, are Karolak’s small canvases and works on paper.

Jason Karolak holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Pratt Institute.