Tennessee - Landscape Paintings

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

In this nebula/cloud painting by Jason Stout, a bright yellow outlined cloud dominates the composition in an impossible starry landscape. Jason Stout wa...

In this nebula/cloud painting by Jason Stout, a bright magenta outlined cloud dominates the composition in an impossible starry landscape. Green, White, an...

In this nebula/cloud painting by Jason Stout, a bright purple outlined cloud dominates the composition in an impossible starry landscape. Jason Stout wa...

In this nebula/cloud painting by Jason Stout, a bright green outlined cloud dominates the composition in an impossible starry landscape. The title seems to be a reflection of the dir...

In this nebula/cloud painting by Jason Stout, a pink outlined cloud dominates the composition in an impossible landscape. Images within the cloud include t...

In this nebula/cloud painting by Jason Stout, a pink outlined cloud dominates the composition in an impossible landscape. Images within the cloud include money, guns, knives, feet in worn shoes...

In this nebula/cloud painting by Jason Stout, a bright blue outlined cloud dominates the composition in an impossible starry landscape. Images within the cloud include disfigured hands and feet, guns, knives, a noose, sheriff's stars, a raccoon tail, protest signs, police batons...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

This Cloud composition painting by Jason Stout depicts objects whirling within an illustrative cloud in a surrealist landscape. The objects are outlined in...

This "cloud composition" by Jason Stout is a surrealist spacescape, in which a whirl of objects are suspended in a cloud. In this painting, we see gun barr...

This painting by Jason Stout features a nebula in an impossible surrealist spacescape with objects whirling around within and around the cloud. A baseball, a baton, a book, a car, a ...

This piece by Jason Stout is one of his "Cloud Paintings," depicting a whirling mass of objects suspended in a cloud. In this painting we see many items that comment on the turbulenc...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

Jason Stout was born in 1977. He received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio i...

Echo III is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in Tennessee. Hartman creates an image on paper then stretches a silkscreen on top of the image to create...

In "Holes and Slices", Peña creates a silhouette of house and fills it with bubbly curved shapes and contrasts them with sharpe-edged shapes that contain gradients and muted tones of aqueous colors such as teal and light blue. He balances these colors with muted tones of pink and violet. The viewer can create a house that is yet to be built in between the gaps here. In "Holes and Slices", Peña remarks on a house and landscape that has yet to be built. The aquatic nature seems to hint at the possibility of a house and landscape under water. The painting is created with watercolor and acrylic paint on paper. In the foreground we see Sintra board or flattened PVC that has been CNC routed. In the "soil" beneath the house are small bubble-like cut outs where the viewer can see through to the pattern created with watercolor and acrylic paint. Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of the “American Dream” and the affects that pursuit has on our environment and national psyche. The realization that both the idealistic pursuit of happiness and the relevance of painting in a technologically driven world informs his practice. With each composition the labor begins with digital composites of a fragmented American landscape in peril —where tension lies in the contrasts between past and present, analog and digital, representation and abstraction, and stability and instability. In his most recent series the American home (stability) and fragmented and shifting landscape (instability) are veiled by a digitally produced mat. Traditionally a mat is, by definition, a flat, thin piece of paper based material included within the picture frame and serves as additional decoration when framing artwork. He activates this commonly overlooked material by using a non-traditional material, Sintra (flattened sheet of PVC), that has a negative digitally drawn image cut-out. This cut-out might, at first glance, look hand cut however, a more astute viewer would realize the precision is mechanical. The mat has been transformed from inactive decoration to digitally produced veil that represents the technologically anxious precision we surround ourselves with. Nick Peña...

Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of ...