A selection of paintings exploring familial ties and intergenerational connection through music by Los Angeles-based artist Jacob Rochester. Rochester’s work ranges from photorealistic to gestural mark making. His latest solo exhibition, “Input/Output,” reflects on shared points of recognition. Filtered through time, sound, and lived experience, the work expresses a sense of nostalgia not to a specific era but rather to the things (people, music) that have left a positive imprint. Working primarily from photographic sources—both personal and found—Rochester selects, crops, and alters images much like a music producer isolates and mixes beats or chords. He builds his compositions through a combination of sketches, gouache studies, digital manipulation, and an oil painting technique inspired by Titian, in which layers of colour are glazed over a monochromatic underpainting.

“Shared history and culture as well as familial love and care can endure through images that continue to echo across generations. Input/Output ultimately presents painting as an act of translation—where memory becomes image, sound reverberates through line and color, and personal history expands into a collective experience.”

“Input/Output” is on display at Plato gallery from January 16th to March 7th.