open for First Thursday Pioneer Square Artwalk

jason@jasonshogreen.com
206.778.0839

BIO:

Born in Japan and raised outside of Atlanta, young me never wanted to be an artist. Doodling was my escape - I never took an art class past 5th grade but was constantly drawing in my notebooks, on tests, on walls, on desks. I ended up at the University of Washington, then with an Electrical Engineering degree. On the week prior to my graduation I looked around in lab (my 3rd straight night spending the night in lab) and realized that people were having fun. I was miserable. The week following graduation I got my first devoted sketchbook. I quickly became obsessed, drawing for hours each day, over the next years dabbling in painting, design, crafts, and illustration. I've whittled my primary interests down to fine art and illustration.

This past year I studied figurative painting at Gage Academy. I won 1st Place in Landscape at the "Best of Gage" show for my first and thus far only landscape painting, Somewhere 2 People are Falling in Love.

Currently I'm painting every day, doing freelance illustration work, have a line of teeshirts being released this summer, and am preparing to apply to a handful of MFA programs for Fall 09.
Jason Sho Green's native language is cartoon. I grew up as a nerdy half-Japanese kid in Georgia and drawing was my means of survival. I spent most summers in Japan at my grandmother's reading manga and making up the story rather than learning the language. This is where my work begins -
That sort of loose narrative that comes from


As I studied classical realist art at Gage Academy I became more and more interested in abstraction - and liked the control that the mechanical art skills gave me in abstracting form.


For me art is escapism. It's therapy. It's entertainment.


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