
Jason Hackenwerth
The Ancient Mariner, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 in
152.4 x 121.92 cm
152.4 x 121.92 cm
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Jason Hackenwerth’s paintings pulse with a visceral emotional charge, each canvas a raw extension of the artist’s internal landscape. His gestural mark-making—sweeps, drags, smears, and sudden bursts—captures not just motion, but sensation. The works feel less like images and more like encounters: with memory, with conflict, with transformation. There’s a vulnerability to them, an openness that suggests the act of painting is not only expressive, but necessary—a way to process the unseen forces shaping our inner lives.
The physicality of Hackenwerth’s work is unmistakable. You can feel the movement of the body in every brushstroke, as if the surface is a site of struggle or release. Thick layers build and dissolve, and fragments of text emerge only to be buried again, echoing the way emotion rises and recedes. Even in his more muted palettes, the tension between control and surrender remains electric. These are not polished or cerebral paintings—they are alive, immediate, and deeply human.
The Ancient Mariner by Jason Hackenwerth offers a more subdued, contemplative take on his signature gestural style. In contrast to his more vibrantly colored works, this painting embraces a muted palette that evoke a sense of quiet depth, while embracing pops of richer colors. The composition feels fluid and immersive, with layered brushwork that suggests descent, movement, and transformation. There’s a meditative quality to the work, as if the viewer is being gently pulled beneath the surface into an interior world, perhaps underwater. Hackenwerth’s physical engagement with the canvas remains evident, but here it’s tempered by a softness that speaks to vulnerability and introspection.
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For more information on Jason Hackenwerth's The Ancient Mariner contact our galleries using the form below.
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