Jason Meadows

Horizontal Striation Scrap Lamp and Vertical Striation Scrap Lamp 2009 101

The Striation Scrap Lamps (vertical and horizontal) although functioning as utilitarian objects also represent Jason Meadows’s interest in a certain kind of crafted sculpture. In fact, one could go as far as to say that these pieces connect with...

Horizontal Striation Scrap Lamp and Vertical Striation Scrap Lamp 2009 101

The Striation Scrap Lamps (vertical and horizontal) although functioning as utilitarian objects also represent Jason Meadows’s interest in a certain kind of crafted sculpture. In fact, one could go as far as to say that these pieces connect with...

Do Not Pass Go 2011 101

Do Not Pass Go depicts Richie Rich, “the poor little rich boy” of the 1950s comic strip. As his steel outline gleefully makes off with a bag of money and a stack of bills, another icon of affluent America, Uncle Pennybags (otherwise...

Jason Meadows’s sculptures and installations transform found and manufactured objects into humorous situations by means of contextual changes. Where sculpture in Southern California was long dominated by the polished forms and industrial materials of “Finish Fetish,” Meadows’s work represents a recent anti-academic tendency to create idiosyncratic, abstract assemblages from readymade and repurposed elements.