Jason Stout was selected as a 2018 recipient of the Ray and Wilma Smith Award at the University of Tennessee at Martin. The endowment is an award for excellence in scholarship and teaching at UT Martin and is offered on an annual basis.
“The 31st Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition will open with a reception honoring the exhibiting artists from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, March 22, in the Grand Gallery of the Shearman Fine Arts Annex at McNeese State University.
The exhibit, which runs through May 10, is sponsored by the McNeese Department of Visual Arts.
Benjamin Hickey, curator at Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is the juror for this year’s exhibition. Hickey has selected 61 works from a broad national spectrum of painting, drawings, photographs, prints and mixed media works on paper for this year’s display.”
For more information, visit: https://www.mcneese.edu/mcneese-works-on-paper-exhibit-set-to-open/
“Stout’s instantly recognizable work employs series of recurring images, many depicted in the bulbous forms that pervaded underground comics in the 1960s and '70s. These images encompass oil derricks, fists grasping knives and guns, the state flag of Tennessee, old-fashioned bombs like the ones used in cartoons about anarchists, paper currency (lots of it), all the implements and impedimenta of contemporary life — telephones, radios, satellites and space stations, sports equipment and so on, rotating in chaotic orbit. In fact, Stout’s whole corpus displays a jolly retro feeling that only emphasizes the serious nature of his themes.” - Frederic Koeppel, The Commercial Appeal
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Stout’s work was featured by Locate Arts on “The Focus” as part of a studio visit series.
“Cloud compositions deal with the idea of conflict and turbulence, both domestic and abroad. These clouds also double as nebulas, contracting and expanding energy around the idea of conflict. These works deal with notions of political strife coexisting with environmental concerns, and create compositions of smaller troubled environments coexisting in larger yet equally troubled ones. There are fragmented figurative elements existing in and outside of these clouds, as well as tools, weapons, and vices. These fragments serve as visual metaphors that address specific narratives from our modern time.”
For the full visit, click here or visit: https://locatearts.org/the-focus/2016/studio-visit-jason-stout
The juxtaposition of work by Juan Rojo, Christopher St. John, Jason Stout and Robert Moler was vastly divergent and highly disorienting. Each tends toward mythologizing stances that elevate their subjects through styles and codes that are as disturbing as they are impressive. None of these artists deals in abstraction; each is highly expressionistic, even artificial in the sense of extreme artifice. The result was strange, provocative and exhilarating.
Read the full article here: https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/arts/visual/2016/12/27/2016-best-art-exhibits-memphis/95765578/
“This Ring Lacks a Puncher’s Chance” was featured in the 2016 FLETCH3R Exhibition along with its corresponding catalog. The Annual FL3TCH3R EXHIBIT is an international juried exhibit focused on socially and politically engaged art based in Johnson City, TN
The full catalog may be found by clicking here.
Jason Stout was interviewed by Donna Woodley and featured in an artist interview for Number, Inc. magazine in the summer of 2016.
A copy of the magazine may be found by clicking here.
Jason Stout has had a work accepted into the the 29th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition. Exhibition dates: March 24- May 12, 2016 The opening reception is March 23, 2016, from 6:00-8:00pm at 4205 Ryan St., Lake Charles, LA 7609.
A catalog was created for the exhibition. More information may be found at this link: https://www.mcneese.edu/visualarts/national_works_on_paper_exhibit_set_at_mcneese
Jason Stout's, Ignition, is named Best In Show by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art curator Chad Alligood. The 2016 Art of the South exhibition hosted by Number Inc. spans Tennessee, with one show in Nashville and one in Memphis. Two sets of work will be on display, and a live stream simulcast will take place during the exhibition opening on Friday, May 20, from 6 to 9 PM.
2016 Art of the South locations:
Memphis
Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art
University of Memphis, Art and Communication Building
3715 Central Avenue | Memphis, TN 38152
Gallery hours:
M – F, 9 AM – 4 PM
Nashville
Gallery 121
Belmont University
1900 Belmont Blvd. | Nashville, TN 37212
Gallery hours:
M – F, 9 AM – 4 PM
Sat., Noon – 6 PM
Sun. 2 – 6 PM
The Hitch Magazine, a publication for The Canadian Association of Oilwell Digging Contractors, recently featured The Spice Trader, an oil painting by Jason Stout. The painting is "a commentary on civilizations acquiring land for the sake of commerce and distorting its original identity from the values of the previous owners. Oil derricks are now as common as trees and other natural elements, foreshadowing a future that is about to arrive. A small underworld passage exists, a purgatory pit of sorts, which is a comment on the cycle of death, decay, and burying of fossils needed to create fossil fuels. This alludes to a grander narrative commenting on the cycle of life."
Leaning Derrick Sunset and Oil Derrick Blast were chosen for the Sixth Annual TAEA Member Art Exhibition. Leaning Derrick Sunset V2 receiving an Honorable Mention in Painting. The exhibition takes place at the Leu Gallery Annex-Lila Bunch Library at Belmont University. The exhibition takes place from June 27, 2016-August 12, 2016 with a reception on July 12, 2016 from 5:30-8:00pm.
Two paintings, The Spice Trader and The Patriot and the Rogue, by Jason Stout were included in the Visual Evidence 2016 Exhibition. Visual Evidence is a regional juried exhibition held at the Miller Center in Murray, Kentucky. On Saturday, April 16, 2016 awards were presented and The Spice Trader won first place in Painting and Drawing.
Juror Wayne White selected Jason Stout's work The Hail Storm to be a part of the The 2nd Annual Art Of The South Juried Exhibition. The show runs from May 20th-July 31st at the Hyde Galleries at the Memphis College of Art at 477 South Main, Memphis, TN. The opening reception is May 29th, 2015.
Leaning Derrick Sunset, a painting by Jason Stout, was awarded 2nd place in the Horizons 2014 Exhibition at the Icehouse Gallery in Mayfield, Kentucky.
Connections: Tennessee Art Education Association Member Exhibition is a juried show featuring the work of kindergarten through higher education art educators from across Tennessee. It is displayed in the lobby of the Leu Art Building. Stout's See See Rider won 3rd Place. Also chosen for the exhibition was his drawing entitled, "The Patriot and the Rogue."
They are small works of art, only the size of a dollar bill, but the interest was big among people at the exhibit opening May 2 in Hammond Hall Gallery on the JSU campus. Viewers who came to see the art at the 34th Annual Mini-Works on Paper lingered and conversed over the intricate works that fascinated them most........The Best of Show Award went to Jason Stout of Martin, Tenn., for his pen and ink, “Liberty’s Gaze.”
Weakley County Press, April 20th, 2012 by Sabrina Bates
Local artists have taken an abstract concept and brought it to life. After a few years in the making, the evolution of what has been known as a “sculptural soundscape” has been revived on paper.
The new design, courtesy of UT Martin arts professor Jason Stout, local potter Clint Riley, and UT Martin music professor Julie Hill, boasts three elements of appeal.
The “playable art” plans to be aesthetic in nature, while providing visitors with visual, audio and interactive components.
From The Weakley County Press: Local Artists Receive Awards In Annual Icehouse Show
“Impressions 2011,” Mayfield/Graves County Ky. Art Guild’s annual juried show, is now on display at the Ice House Gallery, 120 North 8th St in Mayfield, Ky. until Nov. 30. This is the 20th year for the show and it has been a popular show for artists of this region.
Fifty-eight artists from Kentucky and Tennessee submitted over 115 entries to be considered for this year’s show and 77 pieces were selected for the show by Dale Leys, professor of art at Murray (Ky.) State University.....Jason Stout, also of Martin, won the John Cook Memorial Award for first place in drawing for “See See Rider.”
From the article written by Steve Bennett with the San Antonio Express:
.....At the most basic level, Stout questions American society's definition of the heroic, post 9/11, in his politically charged, brilliantly colored new work. “Metro Invocation,” a day-glo riot, deals with our ongoing response to the decade-old tragedy, “post-hysteria.” A jet flying into a building is a central element of the picture, but placed in the background with a cartoonish explosion. A beleaguered Statue of Liberty and a top-hatted fat cat reminiscent of Rich Uncle Pennybags, the Monopoly man, look on, the former in horror, the latter inscrutably.... “Metro Invocation,” like its cousin “Liberty's Morning of Mourning,” represents the “push and pull” of right/left ideology, says Stout, something we have all become all too familiar with these days.
Jason Stout won First Prize for his drawing entitled, "Lo’s Look," at the 32nd Annual Mini-Works on Paper Exhibition at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama. An exhibit of selected works, including "Los Look," will be on display at the Jacksonville State University Art Gallery from May 5, 2011 until the closing of the exhibition on June 2, 2011.