Paintings
Do you remember in those old cartoons, when two or more characters got in a fight? And rather than animate the complex movement of bodies in space - they drew a cloud of dust? Maybe a stray arm or fist would appear, followed by some stars, maybe an exclamation mark, a foot? Well, that is what these paintings are, or what they are based on, or at a minimum what I am thinking about while making them.
Paintings
I’d like you to read these paintings as you would a map, or a diagram in a science textbook, or as a doctor would inspect an x-ray of a leg or MRI. Searching for a specific sign, a marker, fracture, an answer in these reference materials for fleeting moments of calamity - measured, weighed, translated, and codified. I want hold onto these moments of change, of wonder and fear. Creating images that are instantaneously unnerving and awesome, dangerous yet disarmed like tamed circus tigers.
I am inspired by a broad range of historical sources, maps, diagrams, pinball machines, and calligraphy. As a process-oriented abstract painter, I embrace a systematic exploration of chaos and control. My work harmonizes an array of disparate themes: esoteric expressions of cloud chambers, the didactic lines of weather maps, cartography's precise geometry, the random behavior of metal balls inside pinball machines, the unseen yet potent influences that shape our universe, and cartoon explosions. At the heart of it, these paintings harken back to the cause-and-effect dynamics of the cosmos while resembling a fireworks display unpredictably propelling energy into the night sky.
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Jason GouliardThe Length Of A Fuse Is Rarely Ever Known Or Appreciated: Number 562024acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardProbably Something Deeply Ulterior In Either God’s Mercy or Dumb Luck: Number 41 2023acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardStars Revealed, Passed, And Were Dissolved In Dawn As Searchlights Stroked The Sky: Number 482023acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardThe Setting In Which All Of These Events Took Place: Number 472023acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardA Slowed Smudge of Uncertainty, Luminously Ornamental and Beautifully Swept: Number 542023acrylic on canvas24” x 24”
Jason GouliardRodeos and Marching Bands as Unstoppable as a Spring Thaw: Number 552023acrylic on canvas24” x 24”
Jason GouliardThings Either Started This Way or Will End This Way: Number 132023acrylic on canvas48” x 48”
Jason GouliardStudy For The Setting In Which All Of These Events Took Place: Number 462023acrylic on canvas30” x 30”
Jason GouliardNotes On An Amenable Catastrophe: Number 562023acrylic on canvas24” x 20”
Jason GouliardUnfinished Business First Finely Vaporized Then Becoming Whole Again: Number 492023acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardAn All-But-Unwatchable Natural or Man-Made Instant Plunging Into Darkness: Number 512023acrylic on canvas24” x 24”
Jason GouliardUnfettered by the Minor Laws of Ballistics: Number 53 2023acrylic on canvas24” x 24”
Jason GouliardAn Almost Manageable Cataclysm: Number 442023acrylic on panel24” x 24”
Jason GouliardA Denial of Inevitability Opening Out From Behind The Divan: Number 432023acrylic on canvas24” x 24”
Jason GouliardFancy-schmancy and Unrestricted by the Demands of Gravity: Number 522023acrylic on canvas24” x 24”
Jason GouliardAnother Falderal Discovered Inside The Nearby Sports Complex: Number 422023acrylic on canvas24” x 24”
Jason Gouliard A Wild Exclusion From The Primly Orthogonal Floor-plans of an Unpleasant Outcome: Number 40 2023acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardEverywhere An Expanding Of Possibility In An Appropriately Apocalyptic Shade: Number 39 2023acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardEver More Extravagant Disasters Resulting In An Unloosening Of Fate: Number 38 2023acrylic on canvas50” x 50”
Jason GouliardThe Smell of Distant Fireworks or Earthquake Weather: Number 172023acrylic on canvas54” x 54”
Jason GouliardTime, no changes or Amateur Footwork: Number 152023acrylic on canvas,54” x 40”
Jason Gouliard A Seltzer Bottle About To Be Deployed In Some Vaudeville Interlude As All Hell Broke Loose Topside: Number 37 2023acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardA Variable Dependent on Something Undetectable From the All-But-Inaccessible Stretches of the Waste Country Beyond the Oasis2023acrylic on canvas40”x40"
Jason GouliardA Great Blossoming of Disintegration Reaching Now and Then to a Quite Unendurable Brisance: Number 352023acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardA Whole Ensemble of Hesitancies Lost Back Down the Trail After a Heavenwide Blast of Light: Number 342023acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardThe Moment Following an Overage of Mishap: Number 452023acrylic on canvas30” x 30”
Jason GouliardA Message Sent Too Fast For Any But Angels of Destruction to Read: Number 332023acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason Gouliard Therapeutic Rays Not Yet Assigned Letters of Any Alphabet, Though Known and Discussed: Number 322023acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardAn Exhilarated Denial of Gravity Angelically Revealed in Early Sunbeams Through the Stained-glass Dome Overhead: Number 312022acrylic on canvas40” x 54
Jason GouliardThe Opposite of Atonement, or Folding and Pleating Ever Inwardly Upon Themselves: Number 302023acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardThe Instant In Which a Hitherto-unimagined Quantity of Energy Had Entered The Equations of History: Number 29 2023acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardStars Wheeling Unread Above the Roofless Fortune-teller’s Booth: Number 282022acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardLittle Remained That Had Not Succumbed to Wind, Gravity, and an Excruciating Departure of Faith: Number 272023acrylic on canvas40” x 54”
Jason GouliardJudging The Distance Across The Crevasse: Number 262023acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardUnavoidably Suggesting Disguise: Number 242023acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardRewired Randomness, Deliberately Simulated: Number 232023acrylic on canvas40” x 24”
Jason GouliardConstellated Above in the Nightwide Remotenesses of Light: Number 222023acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardSpinning in eddies from the updraft: Number 212022acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardRainy Indifference, Concealed Tranquillities and False Passage: Number 202022acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardCalculating Angles of Enfilade or On the Advice of Counsel: Number 162022acrylic on canvas54” x 50”
Jason GouliardThe Standard Model: Number 122022acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardThe Standard Model: Number 10 (1 of 2)2022acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardThe Standard Model: Number 10 (2 of 2)2022acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardThe Standard Model: Number 92022acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardThe Standard Model: Number 82021acrylic on canvas54” x 40"
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 312020acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 332020acrylic on canvas40” x 40”
Jason GouliardIt's a vicious racket: Number 322020acrylic on canvas54” x 36”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 30, Part 22020acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 262020acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 252020acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 282020acrylic on canvas54” x 30”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 172020acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 29, Part 12020acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 29, Part 22020acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 232020acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 62020acrylic on canvas54” x 40”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 202020acrylic on canvas40”x 29”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 222020acrylic on canvas54”x 40”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 212020acrylic on canvas24”x 24”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 152020acrylic on canvas54” x 30”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 132020acrylic on canvas54” x 30”
Jason GouliardOohs & Ahhs: Number 182020acrylic on canvas30”x 30”
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