Jason Roskey’s solo exhibit, Stay Or Pass On Through Or Whatever, at 33 Bond Gallery in Manhattan opens this week. The Texas-born Brooklyn transplant’s works are composed of pencil, paint, ink, and collage on paper. His themes are derived from the New York City environment: urban life, architectural ruins, decay, identity, and the American Dream. Like many collage artists, his images are collected from recycled magazines and periodicals. In an interview with NY Arts, Roskey explains his image searching process, claiming to have a specific preconceived database of images that he wishes to utilize, which generally includes war-torn areas, political iconography, and images from fashion shoots. Stay Or… is a fresh body in comparison to his heavy handed paintings and drawings of his past life in Texas. The show demonstrates Roskey’s conceptual maturing and (spatial) adjustments in his art making. Roskey has no formal training as an artist but attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.