Sorry this will only take a minute…

Dallas Contemporary, 2015

Exhibition text from Dallas Contemporary solo exhibition:

Jason Willaford’s “Sorry, this will only take a minute,” is the culmination of his summer residency at the Elaine de Kooning house and studio in East Hampton, New York. The work explores the notion of time and the contemporary obsession with being busy. Inspired by a “gift of time” and removal from the frenetic pace of everyday life, Willaford has constructed a visualization of a parallel reality. Using the woods of East Hampton as his workshop, Willaford manipulated a vinyl sheet in order to create a twisted picture plane, from which he cut canvases shaped like smart phone application icons. The resulting series of paintings question the impact of modern technology on the way we experience time.

Dallas/Marfa based artist Jason Willaford (b. 1969) is a native Floridian who received his BFA from Florida State University. His work has been exhibited at galleries throughout the United States including Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, New York; Galleri Urbane, Marfa/Dallas, Texas; and Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. His pieces are in both private collections and corporate collections such as The Bloomingdales Corporate Collection and The Neiman Marcus Collection.