Jason Lazarus

Self portrait as an artist (visiting the Mary Boone Gallery), 2004
Archival inkjet photo
16"x20"
Courtesy the artist and BucketRider Gallery, Chicago

A graduate in Photography from Columbia College in Chicago, Jason Lazarus currently teaches at St. Xavier University. His photographs playfully challenge the perceptions and role of the contemporary artist as author, and the viewer’s expectations of him.

“In America specifically, the products of artists have a hard-to-define value to an economically obsessed culture. These images are meant to simultaneously confirm and disrupt our expectations of artists...Through an artistic process that is part document and part construction, the images invite the viewers to witness the artist's constant confrontation with creating art.”