Jason Stopa is a painter who uses highly saturated colors such as magenta, green, and blue in reoccurring grid-like formations of circles and lattices. He creates shallow spatial arrangements by layering two carefully selected colors, a ground plane, and then the loosely-painted top shapes allowing the background to be visible through and sometimes around the forms. Stopa’s seemingly quick compositions reference an uncountable assortment of art historical, architectural, and cultural references; from Henri Matisse and Stanley Whitney, to church spires, Afrofuturism, and utopias.
Jason Stopa is a painter and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Recent solo shows include Thomas Park, Seoul, Korea (2024); Assembly, Houston (2023-4); Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); and Morgan Lehman, New York (2021). Group exhibitions include Keep Feeling Fascination at High Noon Gallery, New York (2024); Intuitive Nature: Geometric Roots & Organic Foundations at Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR (2023); Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation, at Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, CA (2021), Light (curated by Rico Gatson) at Miles McEnery Gallery in NYC (2021), and What’s It All About at Jenkins Johnson Projects in Brooklyn (2021). In 2023 Stopa was a Sharpe-Walentas Studio Resident. He holds an BFA from Indiana University Bloomington and a MFA from Pratt Institute in New York, where he now teaches. In addition, Stopa is a contributing writer to Artforum, Hyperallergic, Momus, and artcritical.