I enjoy making art for a living.
I enjoy making art for a living.
I am a painter.
I have enjoyed living and working as a full-time painter in New York City for over 25 years.
I feel everyone is creative. I can see it in the clothes people choose, the way homes are decorated, and I paint in order to inspire people to unlock their creativity. I wake up seven days a week and go into my studio excited to create new works and inspire people in new ways through hand painted works on paper, jewelry, shirts, and even wine.
My work largely concentrates on the 'singular' – an animal, a flower, a building, an object – where the noise of a detailed background or other subject matter has been removed.
I like to leave room for the viewer and prefer not to attach images to a higher power, place or time. I prefer the painting to be about one 'thing' … it's a restraint, or constraint or a rule, let's say, and within those boundaries the image takes on a different or greater meaning, even.
I have recreated a large number of my paintings as limited edition works on paper, each of which I individually hand paint, number and sign on high quality 'Arches' paper.
Keeping within the 'artist as jeweler' tradition, I have also re-imagined and produced a selection of my painting images as silver and gold fine jewelry.
In 2010 I founded Jason Oliva [Wine], an ongoing collaboration with South African winemaker Dirk Roos (Stripey Horse) to produce a yearly, private label, limited-edition wine. And in 2011, in collaboration with NYC based art fabricator Karen Atta, I produced my first sculpture 'Lion'.
I was elected to the Etsy Seller Advisory board for 2016.
On March 27, 2015 Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko honored me by bringing my astronaut t-shirt aboard the International Space Station for their heroic year in space mission.
Ralph Lauren has also chosen eight of my images to be used to decorate Ralph Lauren Kids stores globally.
My work can be found in public and private collections worldwide.
My current studio is located at my home in East Hampton, Long Island New York
For more information, please feel free to reach out:
just.the.one [!at] agentmail.to
jasonoliva.com
jasonolivawine.com
THANK YOU for visiting my Etsy Shop.
Cheers!
Jason Oliva
