The Solution Artist

When I think of Jason REVOK’s work, I think of architecture. Graffiti, in the context of architecture or the existing infrastructure of a city, gives you a new portal to think about how the art is placed. Graffiti writers know how to use a city: how to maneuver through it; how it functions; how to see and what to see. REVOK was already known as one of the great graffiti writers of his time when he moved to Detroit from Los Angeles over a decade ago. He could do things with spray paint that few could. In L.A., he could dominate a wall. But in Detroit, he let the city talk to him. He began to collect and assemble objects, find the DNA of the place, and think about how his art could be presented there. He experimented, he made machines, he took photographs. He thought of what space meant to him and those who used the city.