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Jason DeMarte (born 1973) is a photographer and digital artist who photographs objects found in nature, then digitally arranges them together with Adobe Photoshop CC.[1][2]
Jason DeMarte | |
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| Born | 1973 Lafayette, Louisiana |
| Known for | Photography and digital illustration |
Early life
editDeMarte was born in 1973 in Lafayette, Louisiana,[3][better source needed] but spent most of his childhood in Colorado.[4]
Education
editDeMarte earned his BFA in Photography from Colorado State University in 1997, and his MFA in Photography from the University of Oregon in 2000.[1] While working on his MFA, he was a product photographer for Toys "R" Us.[2]
Of how his style developed, he said, "I began working on experimental images where I was collaging multiple images from museums, bio parks, and botanical gardens, and from these experiments, I realized I could flesh out my ideas more effectively if I collected objects and brought them to my studio to shoot separately. This was a huge shift in the work. Much like a painter, it gave me the freedom and control to make compositions from scratch."[5]
Artistic style
editThe Rule Gallery describes DeMarte's work as "fictional tableaus that speak to our obsession with beauty, perfection and excess."[6][non-primary source needed]
Of his work, DeMarte said, "My process draws from a long history of constructed narratives in photography, artist like Oscar Gustave Rejlander and Julia Margaret Cameron, were early pioneers in manipulating truth with the medium, while later artists like Gregory Crewdson, Jeff Wall and Anthony Goicolea made the ordinary surreal with their highly choreographed stills. My process aims to simultaneously embrace a manipulation of truth by hyper exaggerating the ordinary and to also work within a kind of truth by utilizing the inherent believability of the photographic medium."[5]
Career
editDeMarte's works are included in the permanent collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[7][8] the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art,[failed verification] Los Angeles, California, and Fort Collins Colorado Historical Museum.[1][failed verification] His work has also been exhibited at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, in a 2019 solo exhibition called "The Garden of Artificial Delights."[9] The exhibition included adhesive wallpaper that DeMarte designed,[10] and compared DeMarte's work to that of Hieronymus Bosch and Martin Johnson Heade.[10]
He is currently represented by Rule Gallery in Denver, Clamp Art in New York, and Wessel Snyman Creative in Cape Town, South Africa.[11][non-primary source needed]
He is currently a professor of photography at Eastern Michigan University, and prior to that, taught at Mississippi State University, Zayed University in Dubai, and the University of New Mexico.[11][12]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Jason DeMarte | Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Archived from the original on 2021-08-09. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ^ a b Seibel, Brendan. "The Art of the Unnatural | Create". create.adobe.com. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ^ "Jason DeMarte". Richard Levy Gallery. 23 December 2018. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ^ Hamel, Ken (8 July 2009). "Rule: Jason DeMarte and Ronnie B. Johnson | Local Exhibits | Exhibits". denverarts.org. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ^ a b George, Daniel (2020-04-09). "Jason DeMarte: Arcadia, Adorned, Confected". LENSCRATCH. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ^ "Jason DeMarte". Rule Gallery. 2017-01-14. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ^ "Exchange: Ice Cream Calamity". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
- ^ "Exchange: Vanilla Sky". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
- ^ "Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights | University of Michigan Museum of Art". umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ^ a b Porter, Christopher (2019-06-21). "Jason DeMarte's "Garden of Artificial Delights" examines modern excess via fake still-lifes | Ann Arbor District Library". aadl.org. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ^ a b "EMU | School of Art & Design". art.emich.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ^ "Jason DeMarte | Chronicle Community". community.chronicle.com. Retrieved 2020-08-28.