Zebedee Jones |
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New Paintings
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| Danese is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Zebedee
Jones opening Friday, May 10 and continuing through Friday, June 14. Jones’s monochromatic paintings, in deep blues, chocolate browns, hunter greens and blue-blacks, are dramatically physical and evocative. The works consist of densely modulated layers of oil paint applied to substantial, deep stretchers that project from the wall with an almost sculptural presence. Jones employs unconventional implements as well as traditional artists’ tools to create sensuous topographies of paint that reveal a broad range of expressive detail – incised lines, scored and gridded striations, scraped and abraded surfaces expose resonant passages of underlying color. By extending volumes of paint beyond the perimeter of the canvas, Jones develops a lush, organic edge, challenging the notion of a classic, framed rectangle. “Wallowing in paint, Jones manipulates its voluptuous materiality to the fullest, taking it as far as it can go without making unseemly Expressionist gestures.”¹ Born in London in 1970, Jones graduated with honors from the Norwich and Chelsea Colleges of Art. One-man exhibitions have been presented in London, Amsterdam, Dublin and Rome. His work has also been included in a number of museum exhibitions, including “Real Art” at the Southampton City Gallery and the Stedelijk Museum (1995); “Ace!” the touring exhibition of recent acquisitions of The Arts Council of Great Britain (1996); “Foundations for Fame” at the London Institute Gallery (2000); and most recently, “At Sea” (2001-02) at the Tate Liverpool. Zebedee Jones lives and works in London. |
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¹Glueck, Grace. “Zebedee Jones (at Danese),” The New York Times, November 19, 1999, p. E41. |
