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Honors on top of honors. Jason Messinger's wall tiles were selected by the Illinois State Museum to be in their collection. The Museum has right of first refusal for all winning public commission maquettes. Three tile maquettes from the commission for the College Of Lake County, Waukegan Student Center Building, through the Illinois Capital Development Board Art in Architecture Program, which the artist won earlier this month.

The Art-in-Architecture team traveled to Waukegan to meet with the Fine Arts Review Committee to view the four semi-finalist artists’ design proposals for the College of Lake County, Lakeshore Campus Student Center project. The Committee selected Jason Messinger (Chicago, IL) and his proposal consisting of three ceramic tile murals: Onomatopoeia/Onomatopeya; Sun Kissed; and Blossoms.
Among all three murals, a total of 102 12” ceramic tiles will be handcrafted, custom glazed, and mounted on maple frames exhibiting lively words, patterns, and designs that will welcome all visitors to the new Lakeshore Student Center.

Jason Messinger is incredibly honored to be selected for the City of Chicago Public Art List 2023/2024. This juried pool of 58 professional artists, artist teams, and arts nonprofits based in Chicago helps facilitate the selection of artists for public art and other special commission opportunities of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) Chicago Public Art Program. Artists on the Chicago Public Art Prequalified List were selected by panel of local and national arts professionals. See full PDF here: www.chicago.gov/.../pub.../svcs/public_…

Jason Messinger both curated and exhibits in group art show:
"Artists' Atlas: Mapping Their Journey"
Nine Chicago artists chart location, identity and memory through a multitude of various mediums and aesthetic styles.
State Street Gallery
401 South State Street, Chicago
Show runs September 24 - December 20th, 2018
Monday - Thursday from 10am to 6pm.
Reception is Thursday October 11 from 5 - 7 pm.
CLOSING PARTY - Thu Dec 20, 5-7pm
Artists Atlas @ Crazy8Art.com

Jason Messinger's large public commission of five hand-made porcelain tile murals for the Chicago Transit Authority at the Illinois Medical Station Blue Line Stop at Damen, Ogden and Paulina station-houses(all serving one train stop) unveiled by end of August 2018.

Crazy 8 Artists' Carnival
State Street Gallery @ Robert Morris University
401 S. State Street, Chicago IL
Show Runs Sept 26 - Dec 22, 2016
Gallery hours Mon- Thu, 10 am - 6 pm
Thu Nov 17, 4-7pm: music by Jazz Cafe and gallery meet + greet with show artists
Show Website
State Street Gallery Website
Crazy 8 Artists’ Carnival showcases the work of eight Chicago artists working in a wide range of mediums and a wild range of techniques. Interpreting the themes of carnival, circus, and festival, the artists are joined by their exuberant delight in the visual and their unique re-imagining of the world.
Featuring artists Kass Copeland, Alan Emerson Hicks, Tony Izzo, Anne Leuck, Edward Master, Jason Messinger, Anthony Stagg, and Joey Wozniak.
Curated by artist and curator Jason Messinger and Gallery Director and Dean of Arts Shelley Lamantia, the Crazy 8 Artists’ Carnival runs from Sept 26 through Dec 22, 2016, at State Street Gallery, 401 S. State Street, Chicago IL. Gallery Hours are Monday through Thursday, from 10am - 6pm. Jazz Cafe: Thu Nov 17, 4-7pm: music by Jazz Cafe and gallery meet + greet with show artists. Additional Holiday Party will be announced.
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Customized tile mural commissions accepted for your home or office space. Specializing in thematic elements to match your locale, color choices to harmonize with your environment, scales to match your physical constraints. Long history of working with interior designers and art consultants around the country and internationally to better fit your business or residential art needs. Design fees waived in many circumstances. When you want original high-quality artwork that best meets your desires, contact the artist directly @ (773)255-0993

Sights, Sounds and Sensations of the City
Select artists from The Cornelia Arts Building exhibiting in the Loop
State Street Gallery
Robert Morris University
401 South State Street, Chicago, IL
Show Runs: Sep 1 – Dec 22, 2015
Hours: Mon -Thu, 10 am - 6 pm
Artist's Reception: Thu Oct 15, 5 - 7 pm

Sept 30 2011 - April 29, 2012
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Rooms Gallery 2nd Flr
Randolph and Michigan, Chicago
Featuring work by Jason Messinger and over 60 other Chicago area artists based on the letterform and text.

Solo show and ceramic artwork by Jason Messinger
Goggleworks Center for the Arts
Washington St, Reading, PA
(610) 374-4600
Show ran March 4 - April 18th, 2010
See SOLO SHOWS gallery for images from show and opening reception

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 ran: January 12 - March 9, 2008
Curated by Nathan Mason of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the show featured work by seven local artists, and offered a glimpse of their wide ranging practice.
"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 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 artwork 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 Chicago Public Art Guide.

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