Jack Graydon

Instagram: @123.fake.street

Website: https://jackgraydon.net/

Bio: Jack Graydon (b. 1989) received a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in Portland, Oregon, and lives/works in Oakland, California. Working mainly in painting and sculpture, Graydon’s work has a strong groundwork in drawing, focusing on iconographic forms derived from cartoons, art history, drawing from observation, psychedelic imagery, and folk art. Abstract letterforms, flora and fauna, cartoon characters ripple across his canvases abstracted and blended into dreamlike landscapes. Graydon’s work has been exhibited at Goodmother Studio, Oakland, CA; Stellarhighway, Brooklyn, NY; Chefas Projects, Portland, OR; Pollyanna Gallery, Kingston, NY; Kamp Gallery, Portland, OR; and Moth Belly Gallery, San Francisco, CA. He has been a resident at the american institute of thoughts and feelings, Tucson, AZ and Mural Harbor, Linz, Austria.

Statement: Blow up your life, move to the desert, live with your dog in a trailer, quit drinking, take psychedelics, run naked through the saguaros, find new ways to paint. Move to the metropolis, learn the enemy from the inside, study. Escape the city, go home, be warm, see the stars, swim, touch grass, be with family, look for something to call your own.