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Jason Fitzpatrick - Bite n Burn

“Bite and Burn” has three sections that will be actualized separately over a period of time. Each section of “Bite and Burn” occurs in three different cities… an action will take place once in each region thus completing one third of the tattoo, one third of a set of mono prints and one third of the total sculpture.”

The performance aspect of “Bite and Burn” was a three-hour long process, during which Fitzpatrick was tattooed while vintage metal, punk, and hardcore records played in the background. Every twenty minutes, the printmaker would produce sequential prints of the tattoo, creating chronological mono prints. For the remainder of the exhibition, the artist left the prints hanging on the walls of the gallery; he also left behind other physical elements: the records and chairs, and video footage of the performance.

From Artist’s Statement - Bite & Burn, Jason Fitzpatrick, email to Glenn Alteen, Grunt Gallery

“I am interested in sculpture becoming decentralized, not limited to exist within a static form but to be the transformation of form (sculpture-body).”

“In my projects the body is used as a point of departure: my height, weight, strength, mental capacity, sexuality, gender and endurance are utilized as material to establish the initial context in which I work.”

“Philosophically I align my thinking with phenomenology and consider the projects I undertake to be spiritually and socially motivated.”

From Artist’s Statement - Bite & Burn, Jason Fitzpatrick