Solo Solo presents Jason Bly

Solo Solo is an exhibition space awarded to the winner of the prior year’s Annual Texas Juried Exhibition. In 2021, Jason Bly’s oil on panel painting titled Suspension of Disbelief, won first prize. Through detailed surrealist paintings, Bly’s work examines the mundane through the lens of past predictions of the future dating from the 1950’s-1980’s. These forecasts found in scientific journals and science fiction, saw beyond the year 2000 to a variety of outcomes, whether hopeful or fearful of the future. These forecasts predicted space travel, new technologies, and stable life, while others predicted darker futures of nuclear annihilation, fear of the unknown, and a lack of natural resources.  

Bly states, “I am interested in portraying these fantastic events alongside painted representations of everyday household items that act as symbolic tokens and serve as access points to the intangible.”