Artist
Jason’s Bio
Jason Tanner Young received an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2011 and a BFA from the University of Texas at Tyler in 2008. He is currently an Associate Professor of Art and director of the Sculpture concentration at the University of Montevallo. Young previously worked at Ohio University, where he taught courses in Sculpture as wellas the Foundations Department. He shows his work extensively, and has been included in exhibitions at Lowe Mill Arts (Huntsville, AL), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Gatlinburg, TN), Gadsden Museumof Art (Gadsden, AL), The Sculpture Center (Cleveland, OH), Axis Gallery(Sacramento, CA), Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), Manifest Gallery(Cincinnati, OH) the Young Sculptors Competition at Miami University (Miami, OH), the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Montgomery, AL), Visual Art Exchange (Raleigh, NC), Evansville Museum (Evansville, IN), and Rosalux Gallery (Minneapolis, MN) among many others.
Much like a circulatory system, the sprue and runner system of a mold is a vital network that conveys hot metal to all parts of a mold. Young’s sculptures embrace and accentuate this network of vessels, highlighting the elegant and complex system that helps birth so many of our everyday objects. Mining the region for materials, Young methodically collects and melts copper and aluminum to produce a bronze alloy that as form and process, references a body, its systems, and behaviors. Young incorporates these cast bronze pieces into steel and wood compositions, creating new hybridized forms. The wood is often processed and milled from downed storm-damaged trees and branches. While fragments of tools can be identified in his works, the open, twisting forms suggest the fluidity of fish or the movement of water.