06/03/2026
Made during his residency in Costa Rica a few years ago, Jason DeMarte’s Sabrewing and Sprinkles examines the tension between the natural and artificial world.
Referencing Martin Johnson Heade’s 19th-century studies of tropical birds and orchids, DeMarte reconsiders the romantic landscape through a contemporary photographic lens. Built from hundreds of images made under controlled lighting, the work appears as a singular landscape while foregrounding photography’s ability to construct, manipulate, and exaggerate truth.
In place of untouched wilderness, DeMarte presents a carefully staged environment marked by consumption and excess. Candy sprinkles hover in the cloud forest as commercial residue, disrupting the natural order while highlighting how nature is packaged, embellished, and made to compete with our appetite for the artificial.
Jason DeMarte
Sabrewing and Sprinkles
pigmented ink print
*available in four sizes, in very small editions
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