Jon Rollins
Visual artist, Jon Rollins’, studio is filled with scrap materials from years of artmaking: sketches, notes, tape, table coverings, and unfinished works. They are artifacts of phases both inside and outside of the studio, containing the questions, mistakes, and discoveries of their time. Jon begins his work by searching through his scrap boxes of old materials for nothing in particular. As Jon rediscovers materials from previous work or his childhood, the possibilities become endless and the ideas begin to take shape. To create the work, layers of scraps are collaged and then altered with paint, drawings, and a razor. The process is a re-evaluation of each scrap, its origin, and the search for a resolution: when a torn drawing or an old piece of tape just fits.
See Jon’s work below!