Jared Small

b. 1980, Memphis, TN
I’m trying to accomplish a dream-like state…I’m imagining other people’s memories – fading, but still there.
Three Peonies
Three Peonies

Since childhood, Jared Small has been captivated with the beauty of gentle decay in his surroundings. He sees the structure of the Victorian home, aging amidst the warm, lush vegetation of Memphis and the Delta region, as a portal into layered narratives of the past. Painting from photographs and his imagination, a sense of magical realism envelopes his compositions of homes, flowers, and portraits. These subjects become mysterious artifacts symbolizing the cycles of seasons, death, and rebirth. His surfaces are brilliant, glossy, almost glamorous - a marked but pleasing contrast to the peeling paint, sagging rooflines, broken windows, and wilting petals of age and dilapidation. Where the subject meets the background, realistic edges dissolve into a translucent, haunting abstraction, as if crossing into another realm. The viewer is lulled into a dream-like state, caught between the realities of the obvious image and the histories, memories, and possibilities that lay beneath the surface.

Jared Small is a native Memphian. He attended Overton High School and the University of Memphis, and has participated in numerous exhibitions in Tennessee, and a major solo exhibition at the Huntsville Museum of Art. His work is in the collections of Butler Snow Law Firm, Memphis; Commercial Bank and Trust, Memphis; Double H Farms, CT; Duke Aesthetic Center, Durham NC; Duncan Williams Inc, Memphis; First Bank, Nashville; Fidelity Investments, Raleigh, NC; HLM Venture Capital, San Francisco; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL: Jones Clinic, Memphis & New Albany MS; LeBonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis; M2M, Mobile Mercer Capital, Memphis; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis; Renasant Bank, Memphis; NSA Headquarters, Collierville, TN; Music City Center, Nashville; New Media Strategies, Arlington, VA; Pietrangelo Cook Law Firm, Memphis; Regions Insurance Headquarters, Memphis; St Mary’s Episcopal School, Memphis; and Suntrust Bank Memphis, Headquarters.

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Three Peonies
Three Peonies
Blue Dream
Blue Dream
Delicate
Delicate
Magenta Red
Magenta Red
Soft Pop
Soft Pop
Golden
Golden
Soft Pink
Soft Pink
Hyde House
Hyde House
Red Hot
Red Hot
Apricot
Apricot
Soft Blue
Soft Blue
Silent Roses
Silent Roses
Fuchsia
Fuchsia
Pink Moss
Pink Moss
Pink Lemonade
Pink Lemonade
Speckles
Speckles
Rosy
Rosy
Soft White
Soft White
Two
Two
Trumpet
Trumpet
Central
Central
Sideways Shack
Sideways Shack
Three Peonies
Three Peonies
oil on acylic, 24x24
2023
Blue Dream
Blue Dream
oil on plexiglass, 48x48
2022
Delicate
Delicate
oil on plexiglass, 24x24
2022
Magenta Red
Magenta Red
oil on plexiglass, 48x48
2022
Soft Pop
Soft Pop
oil on plexiglass, 36x36
2022
Golden
Golden
oil on plexiglass, 24x24
2022
Soft Pink
Soft Pink
oill on plexiglass, 12x12
2022
Hyde House
Hyde House
oil on plexiglass, 32x24
2022
Red Hot
Red Hot
oil on plexiglass,32x24
2022
Apricot
Apricot
oil on plexiglass, 14x11
2022
Soft Blue
Soft Blue
oil on plexifglass, 14x11
2022
Silent Roses
Silent Roses
oil on plexiglass, 48x36
2022
Fuchsia
Fuchsia
oil on plexiglass, 14x11
2022
Pink Moss
Pink Moss
oil on plexiglass, 14x11
2022
Pink Lemonade
Pink Lemonade
oil on plexiglass, 40x30
2022
Speckles
Speckles
oil on plexiglass, 24x24
2022
Rosy
Rosy
oil opn plexiglass, 14x11
2022
Soft White
Soft White
oil on plexiglass, 12x12
2022
Two
Two
oil on plexiglass, 36x48
2022
Trumpet
Trumpet
oill on plexiglass, 12x12
2022
Central
Central
oil on plexiglass, 48x36
2022
Sideways Shack
Sideways Shack
oil on panel, 40x30
2008

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