Emerging Artist: Jason Horowitz

9 June 2008

Jason Horowitz, "Scott", 2007

Jason Horowitz's provocative and arresting large-scale photographs have stopped people in their tracks. Working at the intersection of landscape and anonymous portraiture, Horowitz finds new ground to explore about the human body, not an easy task in our image-saturated society. Horowitz plays with the tension between attraction and repulsion. By exploding scale, he reveals not only the fascinating visual terrain of the body but also challenges our own hidden or unspoken biases about beauty, ugliness, body image, race, sexuality, aging, and the thresholds of exhibitionism.

Jason Horowitz, "Natasha", 2007

Corpus is an on-going exploration of people and the human form. The photographs are 42"x63" archival pigment prints that reveal a hyper-realistic amount of detail about the subject. The images explore the relationship between photographic representation and painterly abstraction and the formal elements in tension with the emotional content of the subject matter. Shot with the same "glamour" lighting set-up used for fashion images, these photographs subvert that process to look at what is real rather than ideal. Larger than life, these images become a vehicle for looking deeply at one's self and others.

Jason Horowitz, "Heidi", 2007

A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, Horowitz has exhibited his work at Curator’s Office, Washington, DC and his work is in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. He is a recent winner of the 2007 Aaron Siskind Award in Photography.

Jason Horowitz