Jake Still

Jake Still’s paintings grow from a slow practice of presence and response. Working in oil and acrylic, he builds environments that drift between clarity and blur, evoking the sense of scenes remembered rather than observed. His surfaces carry stains, washes, and marks that recall weather, memory, and breath, traces of thought made visible through pigment.

Rooted in a background in sculpture and CGI filmmaking, Still approaches painting as both image and structure. Many works begin as writing, daily notes, or fragments from journals, gradually shifting into color and form. His process embraces spontaneity while remaining attuned to quiet balance, allowing color to pool and bleed into unprimed canvas, forming transient landscapes that hover between the natural and the emotional. Each painting holds a quiet tension, a pull between openness and density, gesture and atmosphere, inviting viewers into the moment where image dissolves into sensation.

2018 Master of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

EXHIBITIONS

2024 Prospectors, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, GR

2024 A Precarious Night at Plumb Point, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, GR

2024 Body Objects, Room57 Gallery, New York, NY

2024 A Stone’s Throw, Storefront Media Gallery, 4Culture, Seattle, WA

2023 Mirror, Portal, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

2023 Shadow-work, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

2023 A Precarious Night at Plumb Point, VRAL, Milan Machinima Festival, Milan, IT

2023 Digital Rorschach, Green Kill, Kingston, NY

2021 CHEAPSHOT, Storefront Media Gallery, 4Culture, Seattle, WA

2021 Find Your Ritual, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC

2020 CHEAPSHOT, Darkest Before Dawn: Art in a Time of Uncertainty, Ethan Cohen KuBe, Beacon, NY

2020 0rphan Drift, Public Records TV Public Access, Brooklyn, NY

2019 The Glitch, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2019 Boiling Point, Superposition Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2019 Material Matters, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

2018 Commencement Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2018 Thesis Exhibition, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA

2017 All College Honors Exhibition, Hubbell Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016 The Immedi...