Jason Gringler — chicane space

Jason Gringler
05.05 –

Video courtesy of Jason Gringler

Jason Gringler lives and works in Berlin. He is originally from Toronto and spent 10 years living in New York.

Destruction is something that I have come to understand as a necessity within my studio practice. I would estimate that 50% of my output is unsuccessful, so the logical part of my brain translates my unsuccessful attempts at production back into raw material. The act of destroying an object achieves more than the destruction of said object. Destruction has repercussions, and those repercussions interest me as unmannered stand-ins for more traditional forms of mark-making.

My material usage in the studio includes glass, concrete, steel, mirror, acrylic, photography and collage. In order to produce small-scale studio collages (which have been ongoing since around 2008) I print numerous pages of images; some are photos I take on the street and others are images of my larger works mashed up with studio process pics. Unused prints build up in piles as future source material.

The impetus for the Covid-19 Collage series came from excess and unused reject prints. I managed to find a way to utilize what I already had laying around the studio while completely obliterating the source. The result is something between photo and sculpture as well as gestural painting and printmaking. JG