JANUARY 3, 2025
Submissions open
May 31, 2025 8pm PDT
Submissions close
Week of July 14, 2025
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September 27, 2025
Exhibition and voting opens
October 17, 2025
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October 18, 2025
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$1,750.00
Size
31" x 25"
Medium
Oil on canvas
In this work, I explore the body as a fragmented site of feeling, memory, and relational tension. Forms bend and blur in a saturated, almost submerged space, where gestures suggest both reaching and retreating. The painting becomes a stage for the emotional choreography of self and other—where touch is uncertain yet deeply felt. I use color and distortion to evoke psychological states that resist clear narrative, instead offering a sensory language of vulnerability, entanglement, and internal rupture.
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Jason StovallVictoria, British Columbia
Jason Stovall is a contemporary painter originally from Fort McMurray, Alberta. He earned a BFA from the University of Alberta in 2012 and completed an MFA at Western University in London, Ontario in 2016. In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious Joseph Plaskett Painting Award, which supported a year of studio practice and exploration in Berlin. Stovall’s work explores physical, psychological and emotional dimensions of the human condition through a materially driven practice. His paintings have been exhibited across Canada in artist-run centres, university galleries, and public institutions. He currently lives and works in Victoria, British Columbia.