Jason Middlebrook: My Landscape at Mass MoCA

Brooklyn Rail - Art Review - July 15, 2013

Jason Middlebrook, “Falling Water,” 2012-2013. Styrofoam, steel, water, PVC pipe, plastic, pump, water tank, rubber, chicken wire, insulation, paint. Approx. 30 feet high. Photo credit: Karen Pearson. Courtesy the artist and DODGE gallery, New York.

Interconnections lie at the heart of artist Jason Middlebrook’s work. The uneasy coexistence between natural phenomena and human-made objects, art’s grappling with the places it inhabits, and the collisions of disparate facets of art history all surface in Middlebrook’s paintings, sculpture, and installations. Laboring across a range of media, he applies paint to wood, incorporates trash into sculpture, and makes use of architecturally challenging spaces in a way that methodically explores these various interactions.

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