BIO BIO
Artist . Designer . Photographer
A.J. Mason is a multidisciplinary artist, a soft-spoken observer who has found an outlet to transform his societal perspectives into functional design. Using his skills in both photography and craftsmanship, he has amassed commissions from a list of notable clients around the world.
Originally from a blue collar town in Illinois, AJ left home at age 17 to attend college. With a degree from the University of Illinois, his creative path took him through Memphis, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles - it is now, on these opposite coasts where A.J. has opened private one-man workshops which cater to an exclusive list of word-of-mouth clients.
Mason's work combines a skill-set of basic carpentry and metal fabrication with a personal aesthetic of retired wood, rusted iron, and chipped paint. His one-of-a-kind lamps, frames, furniture pieces, and mixed-media installations quietly and elegantly carry a subtle appreciation of nature and respect for the callused hands that 'worked' the components before him. It is through his work, that A.J. pays homage to the material and the dusty-handed workers of generations past.
A.J.'s work has made its way into the homes and showrooms of Eva Mendes, ABC Home, Joaquin Phoenix, Salman Rushdie, Flea, Michael Muller, Amanda Demme, Fred Segal, Rosario Dawson, Michael Stipe, Casey Affleck, Balthazar Getty and Kathy Eldon to name a few.
A.J. presently lives and works between New York and Los Angeles.
