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COM | TEL: +44 (0)191 2212560 IMAGES JASON SEIFE & LAZARIDES LTD. 2014

001|100 Unique 166 cm x 122 cm x 4 cm Oil, acrylic, ink, varnish and paper on board 4,500

002|200 Unique 190 cm x 122 cm x 4.5 cm Oil, acrylic, ink, varnish and resin on board 4,500

003|300 Unique 65.5 cm x 80.5 cm x 5 cm (In artists frame) Oil, acrylic, ink and resin on wood 2,000

004|400 Unique 112 cm x 64 cm x 5 cm (Overall size including gap between two parts) Oil, acrylic, paper and tar on wood 2,000

005|500 Unique 107 cm x 107 cm x 6 cm Oil and acrylic on wood 1,300

006|600 Unique 107 cm x 107 cm x 6 cm Oil, acrylic and gold leaf on wood 1,700

007|700 Unique 63 cm x 49 cm x 3.5 cm (In artists frame) Graphite and acrylic on Bristol card 750

008|800 Unique 63 cm x 49 cm x 3.5 cm (In artists frame) Graphite on Bristol card and cell vinyl matte 750

009|900 Unique 94 cm x 64 cm x 4 cm (In artists frame) Oil, acrylic, ink, gold leaf on paper 1,600

010|010 Unique 89 cm x 63 cm x 6 cm (Overall size including gap between two parts) Oil, acrylic, tar and plaster on wood 1,300

011|110 Unique 64 cm x 64 cm x 3.5 cm (In artists frame) Oil, acrylic ink and gold leaf on paper 1,400

012|210 Unique 63 cm x 49 cm x 3.5 cm (In artists frame) Graphite and acrylic on Bristol card and cell vinyl matte 750

013|310 Unique 80 cm x 64.5 cm x 5 cm Oil, acrylic, paper and tar on wood 1,200

014|410 Unique 63 cm x 49 cm x 3.5 cm (In artists frame) Oil, acrylic and print with cell vinyl matte 650

015|510 Unique 66.5 cm x 51 cm x 2 cm (In artists frame) Oil, acrylic and print 650

016|610 Unique 107 cm x 64.5 cm x 5 cm Oil, acrylic, paper and tar on wood 1,700

JASON SEIFE
PALINDROMES
A SOLO EXHIBITION | 5th APRIL 10th MAY 2014

Despite creating chalk drawings influenced by Renaissance paintings at the age of ten impressing his tutor enough to recommended him to a specialist school Miami-based artist Jason Seife was later denied a place at art college. Undeterred, Seife persevered and at the age of 21 created rapper Big Sean's Lion Jesus piece. He subsequently found himself commissioned to produce cover art for Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, himself a collector of the artist's work. Palindromes is the now-25 year-old's first ever solo exhibition and includes three major paintings accompanied by their own musical score, each of which are also composed by the artist. Seife is among the compelling school of young artists taking inspiration from the high art of the Renaissance: its the shock of the old, as art magazine Modern Painters dubbed the movement. But Seifes prodigal talents in art direction bring a super-modern production style to his works, gifting him a unique status amongst his contemporaries. Moreover, Seife juxtaposes the pomp of the Renaissance with the reverential grandeur of space opera, incorporating science fiction motifs. Like many of the finest upstarts, Seife is allied to the distant past and the far future rather than concerned with a disagreeable present. His opulent oil paintings Are influenced by the Renaissance era, but I like to bring the work back to this generation through mediums that werent used then, he says, washes in neon colours, roof tar to create texture, epoxy resin to build the paintings layers in three dimensions, and graphic design techniques in the framing. Seife does not lift imagery wholesale from old master paintings in a mixed media style the paintings are purely a product of his triggered imagination. This contrast, and the many different reactions his detailed, dramatic compositions trigger in the viewer have birthed the title Palindromes. (A palindrome being a sequence, or word, that is identical when relayed backwards.) I use colour and shape to play with perception, says the artist, the Renaissance paintings were so dark as life was illuminated by candlelight and the painters worked with a limited palette. Neither of course is necessary nowadays. Jason namedrops Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Luca Giordano and Artemisia Gentileschi as his most referenced Renaissance painters. Overall the theme of the exhibition is overcoming odds, says Jason. The paintings are dark in nature, but upon them lingers the unmistakable smell of victory. Its the dark times which have taken me to where I am today, says the artist, you cant enjoy reward without struggle. Jason Seifes Palindromes: urbane, as much as urban, artwork with a merciless sense for the dramatic.

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