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Jesse Ozar is a Los Angeles oil painter. His series Decay and Bloom (2015–2024) is a body of work about one thing being absorbed into another. A skull — the last permanent thing a body leaves behind — overtaken by flowers and growth. Not replaced. Integrated.

The series developed over nine years: Fracture (2015), three successive Skull + Flower paintings (2016–2018), and Subsume (2024), a 74 × 46 in oil on linen that completes the arc at a larger scale and in a different medium from the earlier wood-panel works.

Ozar works in oil, building restrained, near-quiet images with something unstable underneath them. As he puts it: "It's that space where something looks quiet but isn't."

Decay and Bloom is a body of work about one thing being absorbed into another. A skull — the last permanent thing a body leaves behind — overtaken by flowers and growth. Not replaced. Integrated.

I am interested in images that can hold beauty and damage at the same time. It's that space where something looks quiet but isn't.

Images on this page may be reproduced for editorial coverage of Jesse Ozar / Decay and Bloom, credited "© Jesse Ozar, courtesy the artist." No commercial use.

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The complete press kit (PDF) is available on request.

Decay and Bloom was entered as a complete series in Art Fluent's juried IN SERIES exhibition call (submitted October 2026; results announced by November 6, 2026).