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Entitled "Proof of Life", Jason Craighead’s first exhibition at K Contemporary reveals a painter inextricably linked physically and mentally to his practice. While his paintings are fundamentally abstract, he concedes a vague reference to craggy landscapes influenced by recent travels to Morocco and Newfoundland. They are potential landscapes, but not quite. This is because Craighead’s excursions in paint go beyond the literal to dwell in the metaphoric. He is mapping the greatest excursion of all – this thing called life. He sanguinely explains, “Without art, I’m not here and …