A Day of Infamy
A collection of dark surrealism
by Jason Rudd
Opening reception: February 4, 2010
6 – 8 p.m.
Jason Rudd started to enjoy art by the time he was in middle school. His 7th grade teacher Mrs. Kathy Garner taught him how to draw cats. He is indeed an animal lover and enjoys drawing them. He draws Elephants, frogs, dogs, numerous cats, mostly Siamese, and humanistic forms as well. He bases his Siamese cat drawings on his favorite cat growing up named Whiskey. His unique style is linear, with an organic feel to it. He had his first showing in 2002 at a gallery, owned by premier artist from San Antonio, Betty Ward, in which his drawing, “Cats on the Fence” was to be auctioned a week later. That drawing never went to auction, but was sold 3 times the amount it was worth.
He has entered many art festivals: The Starving Artist show, The River Art Show, Old Pecan Festival (Austin, Texas), Salado Art Show (Salado, Texas), and the most recent show called ARTFEST (Dallas, Texas). He has donated several pieces to charitable events for great causes. The Starving Artist show received a percentage of sales for the Little Church of La Villita, KLRN received a couple of auction pieces for donation, the YMCA received a couple of auction pieces, and ARTFEST received a very nice donation amount in auction pieces for a charitable event. He hopes to one day donate toward animal rights causes.
His recent selection of works, are more cathartic than his older pieces, which were by nature, more comical in visualization and title. The darker pieces represent the hardships of his life: failures and the loss of love, emotionally drawn by means of sadness and anger in which any individual who has gone through any sort of traumatic event in their life, whether it’s a break up, a divorce, or even a death, can easily relate to his cathartic drawings. He calls this unique style, “Dark Surrealism”.