Contemporary Abstract Acrylic on Canvas Painting “Sculpting Fire, Duende” by Jason Engelund

Acrylic on canvas.
Edition: Unique. Unframed.
This work is exclusive to IdeelArt.
This work is part of the series Asphalt Abstracted Ad Astra.

Metamodern, existential, colorful, Engelund’s paintings take us further into visceral encounters with paint and text as his landscapes abstract into the poetic road via a playful cosmos.

Engelund seamlessly juxtaposes contradictory notions of painting, from zen-like hand-less aretê to childlike technê, while embracing the range of simple pleasures of, to the ab-ex impact of color. Text in Engelund’s new works becomes more prominent than his previous work ranging from poetic playfulness to addressing philosophical problems. Soulful, channeling the progressive California spirit Engelund’s new paintings are an investigation into universal if personal metamodern concerns.

Jason Engelund’s new paintings “Asphalt Abstracted Ad Astra” are represented by IdeelArt Paris, London.

Engelund earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction at the California College of Arts and Crafts and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Davis. In addition to numerous private collections, work by Engelund is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art.