Jason Mones
Provincetown's Annual Beard Festival Monotypes Drawings When Will I Get To Be A Man? FTOOP Pleasant Reminders Fancy Pants  GI Jane My Big Lady Untitled Quagmire Cast Last Buck IOU-green Yelp Little Rebel Falling 1 Noah's Dinghy Zampano's Chain Third Draft Bitch Sacraface Early Bird Special Boomerang Fistface Fans Gone Wild A Fistful of Squalor Red Tumbler Green Screen Keystone Punch Face Flicking a Bic Gitmo Pleather
Jason Mones’ paintings investigate various constructions of hyper-masculinity in contemporary society. From camouflaged sports fans to bare-chested performers, his recent work questions how manliness and male identities are reified through public display. Through these various postures, he is interested in exploring patterns of violence that exist deep within the aesthetics of human behavior. His current paintings reflect upon the mechanisms that surround the plasticity of visual culture, working on how these new introductions shape our fears and cultivate our deepest desires. In images concurrently violent and elegiac, he adjusts the rusty and tin-toothed hardware of their constitution.