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Plan your private studio visit, one-on-one, or groups as large as twenty.
Receive special discounting for all sales when purchased directly from the artist
in his studio / showroom.

Visits to the Design Trade welcome, with or without your clients.
Standard pricing discounts to the trade.

Call to make your appointment -
Jason Messinger (773)255-0993

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Jason Messinger is now featured with tile artwork in
Chicago's Illinois Artisans Shop.
Come see the artist's original ceramic tiles.
The artist rotates displays periodically, so come back often!
Illinois Artisans Shop
James R Thompson Center
100 W. Randolph Street, suite 2-200
Chicago, IL 60601
(312)814-5321
Monday - Friday: 9 AM - 5 PM
Thursday: 9 AM - 6 PM

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Artist Jason Messinger offers international buyers direct prices on art.
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"Symbols & Sympathies"
Solo show and ceramic artwork by Jason Messinger
Goggleworks Center for the Arts
Washington St, Reading, PA
(610) 374-4600

March 4 - April 18th
Goggleworks Center for the Arts
See SOLO SHOWS gallery for images from show and opening reception
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People of the Mud 2: Another Look at Chicago Ceramics
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago Rooms gallery - second floor,
77 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL
Show Runs: January 12 - March 9, 2008
"People of the Mud 2: Another Look at Chicago Ceramics", curated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, features work by seven local artists, and offers a glimpse of the wide ranging practice of Chicago artists who work in clay. Ceramic is a medium which offers a broad spectrum of materials and techniques for artists to utilize in exploring their creative concepts.

"Bigger," is how local artist Jason Messinger describes the work he will be showing, "Bigger and better!" The long time Chicago resident unveils several new ceramic tile murals for the show, including "Spring Madrigal" - a five foot by four foot large mural with his signature letter forms, and the massive nine foot wide by five foot high mural "Sympathies". On view also are "Novas II" and the newly expanded "Sky Rings" - both first seen in the widely acclaimed Crazy 8 show this last November (www.crazy8art.com). The show also features the largest presentation to date of the artist's ongoing and popular hand-painted telephone pole series titled "Urban Sentinels". Two earlier murals from the artist's 'Symbology' series are also exhibited. Titled "Keeping Score" and "Gusto", these murals, (last shown publicly in Chicago in 2000 and 2004), explore the artist's interest in symbolic forms.

Jason Messinger creates ceramic art that bridges the cool allure of pure abstraction with the hot recognition of representation. He approaches ceramic tile with a painter's concerns and a sculptor's experience. Messinger wants the viewer to bring their own interpretation to his work, creating abstracted symbols that each person interprets with their own unique perspective. His multi-tile works are designed to be modular, allowing any configuration and sequence of the tiles. Mounting systems allow the murals to be easily changed, thus resetting the 'narratives'. Using a variety of techniques and glazes, the artist makes letters dance in and out of comprehension, re-imagines pragmatically designed utility poles into startling signifiers of organic beauty, carves static clay into kinetic forces, and transforms simple circles into burning suns, exploding stars, and vibrant targets for the mind's imagination.

Jason Messinger's work has been seen in Chicago and across the country in galleries, museums, and corporate settings. His murals "Alice" and "Letterfied" are part of the City of Chicago's Percent for Art Program Permanent Collection, displayed at the Chicago Public Library's Austin-Irving Park Branch, and are featured in the most recent Chicago Public Art Guide (available at the Chicago Office of Tourism Visitor Information Centers at the Chicago Cultural Center and the Chicago Water Works).

Works displayed will be available for sale directly from the artist by contacting him at JasonMessingerArt@hotmail.com, or calling (773)255-0993. Interested parties may contact the artist directly for private viewings of his tile murals, ceramic sculpture, and paintings and drawings on paper in his studio/showroom at the Cornelia Arts Building, 1800 West Cornelia, in Chicago, or visit his web site at www.JasonMessingerArt.com

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CRAZY 8, features the work of Chicago's most exciting artists,
in a wide range of mediums and a wild range of techniques.
Curated by Jason Messinger

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