Jason Bodnar

Landing suddenly from the diversity and bustle of the NYC Metro area into an isolated Mountain Village in Vermont at the age of 6 was both traumatic and amazingly magical. My early artistic inclinations and expressions were actually presented on the slopes as performance in competitive Freestyle Skiing. This creative approach to life, athletics, and its collective social dynamics bled into other aspects of daily existence. For me I particularly loved drawing as a pastime. It became another form of escape and eventually became a means for me to improve my gamesmanship by learning body mechanics of skiing tricks and discovering figurative drawing by pausing our VCR and sketching it.

Through sacrifice, I followed the template of steps to get to the highest levels of the sport while giving maximum creative effort to both innovate the sport and compete with the best in the world. My forced retirement from FIS World Cup Freestyle Skiing coincided with the moment when I was reaching my peak as an athlete. All my creative and competitive drive had nowhere to go at this point and so I directed these energies into becoming the best artist I could be.

After finishing school and becoming a single dad I made a leap of faith that I estim...

University of Vermont - Studio Art Major