Brooklyn-based painter Jason Rohlf translates his experience of urban and digital worlds into layered, organic abstractions that bristle with color and energy. Each canvas is built up like a collage, with textured overlays and excavated sublayers evoking his environment, from the city’s quilt of brick, metal, paint, wood, glass, and concrete to eroded graffiti and advertisements, from construction sites to invisible strata of digital information and social media. The geometric designs suffusing his paintings recall the maps, blueprints, and network diagrams that frequently inspire him: visual representations of branching city streets and Internet pathways, the multitude of crossroads, physical and virtual, that we encounter daily. “I think in the Information Age, I want people to see real things, things that people make with their hands,” he has said. “It’s so easy to say you’ve seen something, like on YouTube or Tumblr. I just want to create something real in the world.” Originally from Milwaukee, Rohlf studied at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and moved to New York in 1999. He has exhibited his work across the country, created a public installation for the MTA, and lectured at the Pratt Institute, Bowling Green University, and Lawrence University, among others. He is the recipient of the Sam and Adelle Golden Foundation for the Arts Artist in Residency.