Benares Now and Then 1998 / 2023
Jason Thrasher: Athens, GA
Jason Thrasher: Mid 90s
Jason Thrasher: Menagerie
Jason Thrasher: Glass
Jason Thrasher: India
Thrasher explores not main street or the mall but the edges of community life. His post-industrial scenes, such as Wesley and Summer, present two dwarfed figures imprisoned by the barbed wire fence (meant of course to keep them out of the long-abandoned Gulf State Steel Mill). Having been pretty much rejected by post-industrial society, they are left only the detritus of life in the twenty-first century; yet they have each other. Color composition, and content contribute to Thrasher's personal statement about human relationships that are seldom easy and rarely conform to what you have been led to expect them to be. While contemporary life may be superficially empty, these people are enjoying skateboarding, loving, talking, and just being together suspended between the past and the future. - Donald Keyes
Jason Thrasher: Gulf State
Jason Thrasher: Skateboarding
Jason Thrasher: Lotus Pond at Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery Plum Village in France
Jason Thrasher: Beer Can Alley & the Wildest Party in NASCAR at Talladega
Thrasher's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including: the ICA in London, the Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco, the Ogden Museum of Art in New Orleans, the Corcoran School of Art Gallery in Washington, DC, the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, the Telfair Museum in Savannah and the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center- to name just a few. His first book, Athens Potluck was published in 2017 and won the award for Georgia Author of the Year in 2018. His second book, Murmur Trestle was published in September 2024 by The University of Georgia Press.
