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Panacea works by Jason DeMarte
Opening Reception
December 3, 6:00-9:00pm
Exhibition continues: December 3 - January 14th
For the last six years Jason currently has been creating photographic work that surrounds notions of consumerism and artificiality. The exhibition will chronicle this work and showcase his most recent series, "Nature Preserve."
Jason DeMarte is an emerging artist teaching as a tenure track faculty in photography at Eastern Michigan University. Jason held a tenure track position at Mississippi State University, taught as Assistant Professor of fine art at Zayed University in Dubai, and taught as a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico before joining the EMU faculty. He received his B.F.A. in Photography from Colorado State University and a M.F.A in Photography from the University of Oregon. DeMarte's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally. He is currently represented by Rule Gallery in Denver Colorado, and Wessel Snyman Creative in Cape Town, South Africa. DeMarte is part of the Photographers Showcase at Photo-Eye Gallery in Santa Fe. His work has appeared in journals, textbooks and publications including Photography Now, Photo Review, the Wynwood Arts Magazine, A Short Course in Digital Photography, Fraction Magazine, the Black Warrior Review, and the Oxford American. Jason's Utopic work recently closed a solo exhibition at Rule Gallery in Denver, and Wessel Snyman Creative in Cape Town South Africa. His Utopic work was also featured in a group exhibition titled the Museum of Un-natural History at Clamp Art in NYC. Jason was awarded the Gary B. Fritz image maker award this year at the national Society of Photographic Education conference in Atlanta Georgia.
