Jake Messing graduated with a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2006. His interest in the urban environment and its inherent birth and decay serves as the dominant inspiration through most of his work. The urban landscape is personified by its constantly changing and shifting facade. Throughout Jake Messings work, the narrative of the industrial landscape is explored through layers of paint and texture being built up, torn down and obscured repetitively. Images are often deleted and painted over, but their presence is not completely hidden. There is a play between interior and exterior and growth and decay, both in terms of imagery, text, and meaning. Jake Messings' work has been shown in galleries across the United States. His paintings are held in private collections through the United States and Europe. He presently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York where he is endlessly creating new bodies of work.
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