Expulsion: Sculptures by Jason Kash

Expulsion explores the drives and processes of the body and their excesses. Through the layering of materials, the distinction between the organic and mechanical fades, and with it, the concept of nature itself. As the sculptures evolve, their status becomes more contradictory, simultaneously decaying and proliferating. This cyclical vision of the organism as a machine of consumption and excretion becomes a cosmological perspective of change, stasis, and desire. Through this lens, the artist becomes the locus of excrement rather than the channel of divine inspiration.

Jason Kash was born in Alpine, Texas and currently lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky. His interest in art comes from his belief in its power to communicate at a more fundamental level than language. Through working as a workshop assistant at Sculpture Trails and SLOSS Historic Furnaces, Jason has also come to see sculpture as a social as well as individual pursuit. After having reconstructive kidney surgery, Jason became interested in the fragile and constructed nature of the body in his art practice. Additionally, Jason’s understanding of nature being in constant flux informs the focus on process and complexity in his work.