Jason Salavon

Jason Salavon is a digital artist from Indianapolis,  Indiana. He studied Fine Art at the Art Institute of Chicago where he obtained his MFA and the University of Texas where he obtained his BA. Salavon uses software that he designed to create his art work. A main trend in Salavon's work is the reconfiguration of familiar things in order to present new ideas on the subjects. Salavon's art work has been shown in exhibitions across the United States. He has also had solo exhibitions across the world in cities such as Paris, Seoul, London and Geneva.

Jason Salavon's work is characterized mostly by collaging several different pictures to create a completely new image.  This is demonstrated in the <Color> Wheel where Salavon combined thousands of different pictures and sorted them by their main color to create a color wheel.

Another interesting work by this artist is The Top Grossing Film of All Time, 1 x 1 (pictured below). In this work, Salavon has digitized the movie The Titanic. He then split the movie into all of its frames and averaged out the color for each frame. He then sequenced these frames in order to form a collage that represents The Titanic in its color entirety.

 

Salavon also created an image using the film Star Wars III (shown below). Here, he used techniques from both images shown above. The work, The Grand Unification Theory (Part One: Every Second of Star Wars) was made by collecting each second-long frame from the movie and sequencing them into a visually interesting collage. If zoomed in, you can recognize many of the pictures that comprise this image.

 

 

 

Overall, I think Jason Salavon's work is quite interesting. I really enjoy how he can transform the familiar into the completely unfamiliar. I especially liked the piece made from the scenes from The Titanic. The composition of this piece largely resembles a glitched image, but the background story makes the work very interesting. The colors representing the scenes in the movie make complete sense when viewed in chronological sequence. The viewer can see that the colors near the top of the image are brighter and have slightly more variation in hue and vibrancy. Also, the colors toward the bottom of the picture are darker, with less variation in hue and vibrancy. These sequenced colors are easy to relate to the film because the first half of the film is happy and cheerful while the second half is obviously tragic and sad. Jason Salavon's work is unique because it makes the viewer think: what could this possibly represent? With a background story, these images present us with new perspectives on familiar subjects.

 

 

Sources:

http://salavon.com/

http://www.markmooregallery.com/artists/jason-salavon/