Jason Yates
Jason Yates (born 1972 in Detroit, lives and works in Los Angeles) is an American artist. His work involves individually handmade rock posters, latch hook rugs, novelty stickers, and controlled substances, and his output also includes drawings, objects, assemblage, collage, performance and video.
His Fast Friends Inc. body of work is discussed as engaging the issues of behavioral dysfunction, misinterpretation, and social cannibalism. Yates's work is inspired by as diverse sources as history, philosophy, politics, underground rock music, drug culture, and working- class dandyism.
Yates has collaborated with the likes of George Clinton (Parliament/Funkadelic) and Ariel Rosenburg (Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti) and has received commissions from various national and international entities such as Christophe Lemaire (Paris), Penny-Ante Art and Text (Los Angeles), Merok Records (London), and The Committee To Keep Music Evil (Berlin).
Jason's current exhibit is on display at Circus Gallery in LA, and was recently reviewed in the LA Times.
