About

Jason Stewart is an American painter who has an intimate relationship with color.

As a young man, while studying with the Hudson Valley-based colorfield painter Peter Taylor, he began this lifelong, constantly realigning connection to color. Later he worked with the abstract expressionist sculptor Richard Stankiewicz at the University at Albany.

In a recent Art Critical review of Jason Stewart’s paintings, the critic Sarah Goffstein wrote:

Stewart’s destabilized sensibility and almost inappropriately punchy color choices feel contemporary. His knack for continual self-invention and risk taking is rare in a mature artist.

Painting goes its own way, leaving the onlooker with the presence of something and the possibility of making that presence personal. It’s the presence, not the painting itself, that bears meaning, if there is a meaning...At its core color is about feeling, which can be dangerous.

- Jason Stewart