My name is Jeffrey Mark Jones. I am an artist currently living in Northern California. Having been a process painter for about 15 years, I have dedicated the majority of my studio life to the ideas, the subject, and the dilemmas of contemporary painting. My main influences have been Gerhard Richter, Pablo Picasso, Lucian Freud, and Egon Schiele. I feel that, over the last century, these four painters have proven dedication, intuitive genius, and profound intelligence in and around the daily practice of painting.
For about five years, I studied in schools of both architecture and fine arts in Los Angeles. There, my studies focused mostly around the human form and portraiture in relationship to space, as well as consideration of the objects as signs and symbols. From there I ventured into the world of surrealism, combining my architecture and painting backgrounds with the focus remaining on the human form.
Conceptually and aesthetically, my work centers itself around the real and abstracted ideas of spatial objects in relation to the human form. The use of pigment as object also plays an integral part in the fabrication of each piece.
I believe that the process of painting today possesses a unique and imperative role in the contemporary art world both aesthetically and theoretically, which demands intelligent conversation and visual thought.
EDUCATION
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
• School of Architecture
• School of Fine Arts
EXHIBITIONS
2009 * High Voltage Art Studio, Recent Works * Healdsburg, CA
2009 * High Voltage Art Studio, Recent Works * San Francisco, CA
2006-2007 * Barcode, Current Works, solo * Santa Rosa, CA
2006 * Revolution Moto, “Nano-Blur,” solo for First Friday * Santa Rosa, CA
2006 * High Voltage Art Studio, “Nano-Blur,” solo * Healdsburg, CA
2004 * Neurosis Art Gallery, “Spinal Cubism,” solo * Venice, Los Angeles, CA
2002 * Bullseye Art Gallery, “Contemporary Art” * San Francisco, CA
2001 * Hal Hackendale Art Studio, “Spinal Cubism” * Los Angeles, CA
2000 * Hal Hackendale Art Studio, “Fallacy of Perfection” * Los Angeles, CA
1998 * Shtorch Art Gallery, “Figurative Spaces” * Santa Monica, CA
1996 * University Art Gallery, “Surreal Portraiture,” solo * Los Angeles, CA
1995 * Mihai Popa Galleries, “Surreal Landscapes in Painting” * Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY