Renewed Materials.
Reclaimed Personalities.
One-of-a-kind art, interiors, and furniture built from what the world left behind.
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Reclaimed
Sourced from discarded furniture, architectural remnants, and forgotten materials.
Discovered
Faces and personalities are uncovered within the shapes, textures, and histories of each piece.
Renewed
Through craftsmanship and imagination, each character is given a new story to tell.
Collectible
Original works, limited prints, and functional objects made to be lived with and loved.
...Myles Away!
A nod to adventure, creativity, and never stopping the journey.
Featured Work
Neptune
A classical bust, resurfaced shell by shell.
Balance
An abstract wood assemblage lit from behind, its cutout forms glowing on a base repurposed from a wooden bowl.
Athena
An owl in turquoise chenille, with amber glass eyes and a cascading white beaded fringe.
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Selected work across original art, interiors, furniture, and visual merchandising.
Original ArtThe collection, below
Interior DecoratingGallery below
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Visual MerchandisingSample below
The Collection
Salvaged wood, bamboo, shells, furniture parts, and paint.
Guardian Series
The Guardian series draws on the universal impulse to hang a face by the door, a form that appears independently across cultures. Each is built from salvaged wood, bamboo, and furniture parts & hardware.
Guardian No. 1
Wall-mounted mask assemblage built from repurposed turned wood spindles and finials, arranged as a radiating headdress around a carved wooden face with layered geometric features and inset eyes. Mounted on a wood plaque base.
Guardian No. 2
A playful yet imposing Minotaur mask assemblage with horns repurposed from a child’s wooden train set and a carved nose ring set against natural wood grain. The brows are movable: tilt them for mad, raise them for surprised, or set them level for a calm, watchful stare.
Guardian No. 3
Wall-mounted mask assemblage featuring a single piece of bamboo split in half to form dramatic antler-like horns, with wood bead eyes hand-painted pink and painted arrow accents centered on a dark wood spine.
Guardian No. 7
A feral guardian mask with two bamboo forms meeting in a sharp peak between round layered wood eyes, angular geometric brow accents, and carved wood mouth with pointed fang inlays. Untamed energy within the Guardian series.
Guardian No. 8
An abstract, Cubist-inspired guardian mask built from overlapping wood planes in varied tones, with two mismatched round wood eyes, one small and one large, set at different heights across the asymmetric face.
Guardian Series 2
A modular three-piece set, all three cut from a single piece of wood. Each piece can hang alone as a wall sculpture, or the three can be combined into one larger totemic assemblage.
Warpaint
A warrior-coded painted wood assemblage face with bold, angular eyebrow forms, fierce orange-and-black cartoon eyes, and bared teeth in flat color-blocked planes of sage, blue, and cream.
Twin Tides
A split-face guardian mask in soft seafoam and cobalt blue, with round wooden bead eyes, a curved moon-like form framing one side, and a raised central nose bridge with cutout detail.
Zest
A vibrant guardian mask in sunny yellow, teal, and chartreuse, with a single sculpted concentric eye and turquoise bead pupil, and a jagged serrated edge along the lower profile suggesting a beak or open mouth.
Guardian Series 2
The three pieces locked together as one sculpture.
Sculpture
Neptune
A classical bearded bust reimagined as a sea deity, crowned with an elaborate headdress of natural seashells and faux coral, with a flowing coral-textured beard. A striking Mohawk-and-crown amalgam finial rises behind the head; the piece ends at the shoulders with no separate base.
Neptune
The same bust from another angle, showing the shell-and-coral headdress and the finial behind the head.
Little Reef
A whimsical fish sculpture entirely encrusted in natural seashells, with cockle shells forming scaled body texture, scallop shells as fins and tail, and faux coral branch accents along the back and tail for a true reef-dweller feel.
Athena
Owl assemblage sculpture with turquoise chenille body, amber glass cabochon eyes in turquoise beadwork, and cascading white bugle-bead and crystal fringe forming her breast feathers. Paisley fabric wraps the talons.
Spoke
A carved wooden face with dark almond eyes, axe-head brows, a tapered nose and rounded sphere cheeks radiates outward into dozens of repurposed dowels and curved wooden track pieces, mounted on woven cane. Part sunburst, part wheel, part watchful face, built entirely from repurposed and discarded materials.
Balance
An abstract wood assemblage sculpture with a light source affixed to the back, casting a warm glow and dramatic shadows through the negative space of its cutout forms. A sail-like curved plywood form angles upward at the top, paired with a second scalloped panel that catches the illumination in shifting orange tones. A wooden disc floats within the composition, suspended by fine wire, while the whole piece is anchored on a rounded, polished base repurposed from a wooden bowl.
Landscape on a Lake
An abstract wood relief landscape built entirely from scrap wood salvaged from the Bergdorf Goodman warehouse floor. Layered natural and painted wood forms suggest mountain peaks above, mirrored by a rippling reflection below, with the lower half echoing the upper as if seen across still water.
Making Faces
Making Faces No. 1
The first piece in the "Making Faces" series, a face assembled entirely from found hardware and metal objects, mounted on a pink mat within a distressed hot pink frame. Hooks, washers, springs, a wing-nut "cross," and curved brackets come together to form eyes, nose, and a toothy grin. Contains many hidden faces within the piece, each visible from a different viewing angle.
Spin
One piece in two parts, the gilded frame and the turntable element, shown here together and separately. The turntable can also be displayed on its own.
Spin
A repurposed turntable platter and tonearm mounted within a vintage-style gilded frame, rendered in shifting iridescent tones of gold, pink, and teal.
Spin
The platter and tonearm, the first of the two parts.
Spin
The gilded frame, in the same iridescent finish, the second of the two parts.
Painting
Totem
A vertically stacked abstract painting in warm orange and cool blue-teal tones, with nested organic forms outlined in deep burgundy suggesting a totemic figure. Signed lower right.
Break
An abstract spray-paint piece with wet-mixed magenta, crimson, and blue tones bleeding into organic forms, painted on particle board. He made it on breaks while self-teaching color theory and paint technique during his years at Bergdorf Goodman.
Color Study
A framed quartet of spray-painted panels mounted directly on the outside of the glass: one large vertical block in magenta, orange, and yellow-green, a slim blue-and-orange block, a small square in red and magenta, and a fourth panel. Part of a series of self-taught color explorations made during breaks at Bergdorf Goodman.
Interior Decorating
Interiors styled by Jason.
Client Project
A mid-century tiki lounge Jason styled for a client in Brooklyn.
Furniture & Home
Mid-century furniture, lamps, and handmade pieces for the home.
Visual Merchandising
Retail windows and in-store displays.
Bergdorf Goodman
I worked on Bergdorf Goodman’s Windows & Interiors visual teams for two and a half years, contributing to displays and installations throughout the year, including the store’s seasonal holiday windows, made under the creative direction of David Hoey, the store’s longtime Senior Director of Visual Presentation. While the concepts and designs were his, I helped bring them to life: building, painting, and installing the physical work day to day. The images below are a record of work I helped construct.
Trailer Park Shop
A sample of the visual merchandising work.
About the Artist
An object can become something else entirely without erasing what it was.
That’s what I’m after. Get close to one of my pieces and you’ll see the seams: the grain, the marks of what a piece of wood used to hold, the edge where something was cut away from something else. I want you to recognize what each part was before. Step back and it should look like it was always this. One object, its own logic, with nothing borrowed.
I came to this work at 45, after twenty-some years in rooms built to look effortless: cruise ships, hotels, television, retail windows. Places where the illusion holds only because someone’s running the machinery underneath. I’m still doing that, just with my hands and in public.
Background
Jason Myles is a self-taught assemblage artist based in New York City. He builds primarily in salvaged wood, constructing objects that reveal their origins up close and read as singular and inevitable from across a room.
He came to the work after two decades spent inside industries built on constructed illusion. He performed at Walt Disney World and on Disney Cruise Line, worked as a television production assistant, a flight attendant, and a public relations professional, and spent twelve years in the front office of one of New York’s top hotels. From 2021 to 2024 he worked on the Windows and Interiors visual teams at Bergdorf Goodman, where large-scale display taught him how a finished surface conceals its machinery. In 2022 he served as one of eight captains leading a two-hundred-person team decorating the White House for Christmas.