Jason Salavon

Known for his use of custom computer software to manipulate and reconfigure preexisting media into works of art, Jason Salavon’s projection for ART on THE MART, Homage in Between (Chicago Art, 20th Century), spoke to Chicago’s grand art and design histories as fluid streams of smaller events. Image archives were used to create poetic complexes of flowing visual history. Dense, organic matrices of images danced across the THE MART’s expansive façade along Chicago’s Riverwalk. Reproductions of paintings, illustrations, and other visual ephemera served as source particulate in an evocative visual symphony of forms.

The work was commissioned by the Terra Foundation for American Art as part of its year-long initiative Art Design Chicago, speaking to the unique art and design history and legacy deeply rooted in the city of Chicago.

Since the mid-1990s, Jason Salavon has used custom software to create artworks that ruminate on the nature of individual uniqueness when embedded in massive populations. Using processes of his own design, he has sought to unearth unexpected pattern as the relationship between the part and the whole – the individual and the group – is explored. Reflecting an attraction to popular culture and the day-to-day, his work regularly incorporates the use of common references and source material.