Jack Kaido

The online experience is condensed into Jack Kaido’s paintings. A hundred different elements compete for your attention in a sensory experience as intense as it is familiar. Abstract lines and shapes mimic the links, pop-ups, images and ads on every web page. Jack creates his works on Procreate – a digital painting app. He begins each one with a twenty second sketch, then builds up layers that are sometimes “expressionistic action painting” and other times “methodical and slow.” Ironically, he describes cave paintings as one of his biggest influences. Like those prehistoric artists, Jack is also considering how and where we tell the stories of our time.