Jayson Mittman — CalArts Post Grad Show Y25

Jayson Mittman

(Art MFA 25)
IG: @mittmos

Artists in Repose [8K transparent HTPLA, crystal particulate, mica powder, fur, kiln-dried wood, 2 LED mini spots (3.5V, 3W)]; Penitent v. Paparazzo [Uncured, bone-white PLA, brushed metal casing, white ash dais, clay paving bricks, acacia, 2 LED pin spots (5V, 5W)]; Micro-Martyr [8K transparent HTPLA, crystal particulate, steel ledge, ashtray sand, lava rock], 2025

Jayson Mittman’s expansive practice encompasses video installation, animation, creative computation, and interactive technologies to create physical and digital sculptures. Mittman’s installation presents a new, theatrically staged alter-realm of cloned selves, their own body presented and represented as artifact and apparition. A striking scene and set unfolds. On a pedestal, the Artist sits in a robe labeled Artist, speaking to another, slightly smaller Artist, also in a robe labeled Artist. The two discuss themselves and, it would seem, their troubles. Below, and in the middle distance, a figure kneels, penitent, in the same translucent resin as the Artist. We get a sense of the artist’s life, the different stations he must travel towards for the promise of a sublime payout. Looming above him, a massive paparazzo in an uncured, opaque white resin, attempts to frame and capture the artist’s image. A perverse spiritual transaction unfolds, as the penitent (the captured) needs the captor; the captor needs his subject.

PROXY CHIMERA ORACLE

CalArts 2025