Jarret Rubin

Jarret Rubin (b. 1992, Los Angeles) uses painting to traverse the middle road between consciousness and unconsciousness, to portray a kind of experiential wholeness. Rubin’s representational compositions disrupt conventional hierarchies by collaps...

Jarret Rubin (b. 1992, Los Angeles) uses painting to traverse the middle road between consciousness and unconsciousness, to portray a kind of experiential wholeness. Rubin’s representational compositions disrupt conventional hierarchies by collapsing subject, object, and setting into one unified plane. Each object or figure rendered seems imbued with mythological symbolism and meaning, yet no one subject receives special emphasis or demands particular attention. The effect is an uncanny understanding of one’s relationship to his complete environment – how memories, fantasies, and images meld together to create experience. To Rubin, many experiences – lived and unlived – comprise the wholeness of subjective, experienced reality. His paintings evoke the poetic, human futility of striving towards an objective point of view, and the ultimate impossibility of omniscience. Rubin paints to uncover life’s occluded narrative arc – to tell a storyless story.