Silvery Blue Realm
2005
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 60"

Jimi Gleason (b. 1961) is an American visual artist. He has had numerous gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Bentley Gallery at Bentley Projects and at the LewAllen at the Santa Fe Railyard. Gleason has spent his career exploring the reflective possibilities of a painterly surface. Mixing nontraditional materials such as silver deposit with acrylic paints, Gleason’s surfaces are highly reactive to light and shifts in the viewer’s position. Rather than focusing on the surface as an end in itself, his paintings track the play of light and the movement of the viewer across the surface, thereby acting as a mirror onto the external world. Through this movement, Gleason hopes to induce a meditative experience for his viewers.