Jason Whitman at Stitch

Exhibition

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Drawings by Jason Whitman
February 5 – February 27, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 6-10 p.m.
 
Stitch / Holly Aiken Bags, 20 East Hargett Street, Open Monday - Friday 11-6 and Saturday 1-6
 
Presented by Rebus Works (www.rebusworks.us)
 
 

 

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For the month of February, Rebus @ Stitch features the drawings of Jason Whitman. Opening for First Friday, February 5, the exhibition will be on view through February 27.  
 
Jason Whitman is a Raleigh-based artist and curator who graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from East Carolina University in 2000. He has exhibited throughout the state, including in the Lo-Pop Art Fair (Artspace, 2009), We Cast More than Shadows (Sawtooth Art Center, 2005), and in solo exhibitions including Beast of Burden (The Third Place, 2009).
 
Of his work, Whitman writes: “I give my characters a variety of natural disguises, but below all of that, beyond the deer head, or lion face, we're no different.”  His pencil drawings for this exhibition feature animals and combinations of animals—a sleeping bear with large claws, a part deer-part flora creation—that suggest connections and dichotomies, relating both to nature and to our relationships and to what Whitman describes as “uncomfortable social situations."
 
 

Jason Whitman, The Roadside to Redemption

Jason Whitman, The Roadside to Redemption

Jason Whitman, Animal Vegetable Mineral

Jason Whitman, Animal Vegetable Mineral

Jason Whitman, Some nights I go to sleep, hoping to never wake up.

Jason Whitman, Some nights I go to sleep, hoping to never wake up.