Jason Middlebrook gathers his creative inspiration from nature and from humans' endless fear and misunderstanding that leads to our destructive impact on the earth. From sculptural installations of salvaged materials to colorfully drafted renderings of flora and fauna, Middlebrook questions the relationships between humans, nature, and art. While his work is certainly critical of that relationship, Middlebrook also finds beauty in the garbage, detritus, and collisions of man and nature.Middlebrook has both enlightened and offended with his controversial ideas about the places where art lives and how art is viewed. Based on the quotation, "Museums are places where art goes to die," Middlebrook did several projects critiquing museums' authority, treating museum spaces as graveyards for art. His work is often site-specific, challenging traditional expectations for boundaries between civilization, culture, and nature. He was Born 1966 Jackson, MI, he now works and lives in Hudson new York. Although he was born in Michigan however, the first ten years of his life were spent in Iowa, Kentucky, and Los Gatos, California, where his family finally settled.
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