Jason Engelund

Meta-Lanscapes: New Landscapes in Contemporary Photography and Painting
United States °1971
affiliation: Ideel Art Gallery Paris London
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Jason Engelund (b. 1971, California) is a San Francisco-based artist whose work in painting and photography explores the intersections of psychological and physical landscapes, creating what he terms "Meta-Landscapes" that investigate themes of perception, landscape and transformation.


Engelund's work is deeply rooted in his belief in art's capacity for social and personal transformation. He worked for eleven years developing arts and social justice programs. His photographic work focuses notably on the sun as a conceptual and metaphorical basis of source of light, while his paintings are inspired by his research in philosophy and explore the emotive power of color and symbol to visually narrate humane ideals in abstract compositions.


Engelund holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California Davis and a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from the California College of Arts and Crafts.

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  • Meta-Landscapes: Expressions of Temporal Consciousness, New Abstractions in Photography (last edited: 2015) author(s): Jason Engelund This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Artist Jason Engelund approaches photography by addressing psychological frameworks of different world-time views, and shifts in perceptions of time during individual events. The notion of a “visual time signature” is proposed, a phrase to describe types of temporal consciousness, incorporating cultural and individual time perception as they relate to cognition, experience, and image. Expressions of the “meta-landscape” encompassing both the psychological landscape and actual landscape are pictured and discussed.
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