Artist Statement
I like to use combinations of media to make pieces because each different type of media reflects different emotions in the viewer. I begin my process by selecting a medium and figuring out what it means to me. I harvest my associations and come up with imagery that suites the material I am working with. I'm drawn to electricity and moving things, and I construct mechanisms to coincide with their emotional impact on me.
About
Jason Krugman is a New York-based artist focusing on kinetic sculpture and responsive lighting installations. His drawings and interactive sculptures have been shown at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The New York Hall of Science, The Diagonal Mar Commercial Center in Barcelona, and The Sony Wondertechnology Lab in Manhattan. His interactive art has been widely viewed on prominent blogs such as New York Times Arts Beat, Kanye Universe City, Engadget, MAKE and Gizmodo, and has been featured on Australian radiostation 2CC, and in magazines like Vision, in China and Picture, in Australia.
Jason holds a Master's from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Previous places of academic study include Tufts University, The Museum School in Boston, and The University of Barcelona. He was recently awarded a fellowship by the school at Fabrica, The Communications R&D Lab at Benetton in Treviso, Italy.
Since graduating from ITP in May of 2009, Krugman has shown work at the All Points Music Festival in New Jersey, the Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles, the Northside Music Festival at Supreme Trading in Brooklyn, and the Studio IMC Exposition in Manhattan. Current projects include the installation of Firefly 870 at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, and a series of large-scale light sculptures for McCarren Park in Brooklyn.Contact: jasonkrugman@gmail.com
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Portrait of a Young Public Artist
Nov 19, 2009 by James Yeh We’ve all heard how Williamsburg has changed. How it once was a neighborhood of Hasidic Jewish, Dominican, German, Italian and Puerto Rican families; how over the last thirty years, it’s become a haven for young musicians, artists and hipsters; how it’s now transforming into a cavalcade of enormous, shimmering condos complete with the residents who usually accompany such gaudy buildings. Yet Williamsburg’s role as cultural vanguard remains. Some of this is due to lingering reputation, but a large part of it is due to the continuing influx of exciting, new artists who—through resourcefulness and innovation—are still able to find ways of making it happen. Kinetic sculptor Jason Krugman is one of those artists. More. |