Jason Adkins

www.jason-adkins.com

Born in 1973 in Dover, NJ
Lives and works in San Diego, CA
Education
2003 M.F.A. Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 1996 B.A. Visual Arts, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 Resurrection, Kruglak Gallery, Oceanside, CA
2013 Gods and Demons, Western Project, Culver City, CA
2011 Align and Prosper, Pop Up Art House, Henderson, NV
2008 You Had It Coming, Western Project, Culver City, CA
2007 Spinning Turning Wistfully Burning, Gallery 643, Ventura, CA
The Gray Relief, Heaven in Venice, Venice, CA
2003 Fell on it by Accident, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 2002 250 Drawings, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014! Art for Art’s Sake: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, ! ! UNLV, Las Vegas, NV
2013 Art for Art’s Sake: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,
! ! Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
! New Again, UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, NV
2012 California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,
! ! Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
2011 10 x 10, Rotunda Gallery at Clark County Center, Las Vegas, NV
2010 Construction Zone, Western Project, Culver City, CA
2009 Modern Salvage, Cascade Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR !
Way Out West, Donna Beam Art Gallery, University of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV ! 3-D Painting, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA! Terra Incognita, The Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Diego, CA !
The First Six Years, Western Project, Culver City, CA
2008 Everything Else, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY!
Luscious Abstractions, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast Community College,
! ! Costa Mesa, CA!
Sculpture Part I, Western Project, Culver City, CA!
Reflections from the Artistʼs Eye: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,
! Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Platt
! Gallery, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Los Angeles Awards, Artscene: 25, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Winter Biannual, LAAA South, Hermosa Beach, CA 2006 Of This World, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Field/ Form, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA !
The Big Picture in the Small Gallery, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University,
! Claremont, CA (curated by David Pagel) !
Open Road, Judith Kaufman Gallery, North Hollywood, CA
2005 ANA 34, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT (curated by David Pagel and Polly Apfelbaum) No Pictures Please, Cartelle Gallery, Marina del Rey, CA (curated by James Hayward)
2004 Supersonic, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA!
Observations, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Surely, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2002 Commercial Space Available, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA Scapes, Progress Space, Pomona, California !
Welcome, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, CA
Museum Collections
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Chapman University, Phyllis and Ross Escalette Permanent Art Collection. Orange, CA UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, NV
Bibliography
2013 Peterson, Kristen, ‘Jason Adkins’ P3 residency invites you to paint with the artist’,
! Las Vegas Weekly, January 16, 2013
2011 Peterson, Kristen, ‘Vegas Newcomer Jason Adkins brings his work to Pop Up Art House’,
Las Vegas Weekly, August 24, 2011
Kenway, Jenessa, ‘Statues of Liberty’, Las Vegas City Life, August 18, 2011 Warso, Cynthia, “Free to Flow” Vegas Seven, September 15, 2011
2009 Peterson, Kristen, ‘An Infusion of Art’, Las Vegas Sun, September 12, 2009 2008 Burkel, Brent, ‘Armory Show Week 2008’, ArtCal Zine, March 30, 2008
Freeman, Tommy, ‘Jason Adkins at Western Project’, Artweek, December 2008/January 2009, Gonzalez, Rita, New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition in Print, Open Studio Press, No. 79,
December 2008/January 2009
S.G.T., ‘L.A. Art in New York’, Art in America, May 2008
Residencies
2013 P3 Studio at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Las Vegas, NV
Film
2010 (sculpture) The Social Network, Columbia Pictures (paintings) Surprise, Animus Entertainment


Portfolio:

Gods, Demons, and Abstractions

Some big, some very large, some medium, and some small.
Some on canvas, some not. Some oil, some acrylic.

The Rapture “The Rapture”

96" x 72" oil and spray paint on canvas

Thrush “Thrush”

72" x 108" oil and spray paint on canvas

Strand “Strand”

72" x 108", oil and spray paint on canvas

Mischief, Mayhem, and Darkness

Dark paintings. Simple. To the point.

Be Cooler (Ice Colder) “Be Cooler (Ice Colder)”

40" x 30", oil on canvas