Matt Jones

24 AUG 2008

A Ghost, 2008
graphite on paper
30 x 22 inches

Three of my "ghost" drawings are in TIMELESS at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey.

From their website:

September 30– December 21, 2008
Bickford and Bush Compton Galleries

This is an exhibition of drawings by artists from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, assembled by curator Ann Aptaker. Work of established and emerging artists from the museum’s home region will include contemporary drawings as well as drawings from earlier generations. The exhibition embraces two concepts: first, that drawing emerges from an immediate and total relationship of the artist’s hand with the drawing instrument or medium, thus embodying a spontaneity and risk; and second, the very act of drawing connects the artist to humanity’s earliest, most mysterious consciousness.

A Hungry Ghost, 2007-2008
oil and acrylic on canvas
14 x 11 inches

A Thought-Form, 2007-2008
oil and acrylic on canvas
16 x 14 inches

An Eternal Champion, 2007-2008
oil and acrylic on canvas
14 x 11 inches

A Thought-Form, 2007-2008
oil, acrylic, hotmelt, and plastic on canvas
18 x 15 inches

A Thought-Space, 2008
oil and acrylic on canvas
16 x 20 inches

A Thought-Space, 2008
oil on canvas board
5 x 7 inches

A Leader, 2008
graphite on paper
30 x 22"

A Ghost, 2008
graphite on paper
30 x 22 inches

A Forest Spirit, 2008
graphite on paper
30 x 22 inches

A Leader, 2008
graphite on paper
30 x 22 inches

A Ghost, 2008
graphite on paper
30 x 22 inches

A Forest Spirit, 2008
graphite on paper
30 x 22 inches

A Sprite, 2008
graphite on paper
30 x 22 inches

EVR1
Everlasting (2008)

DBM1
Death By Misadventure (2006)

LDTM1
The Last Days of Terror Mansion (2006)

NBC1
NBC (2005)

HAA1
Human After All (2005)

1980-1
1980 Art Show (2004)

Matt Jones
born in Rochester, New York in 1980
lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Education
Cooper Union School of Art; New York, New York (BFA)
Yale Summer School of Painting, Norfolk,

Selected Exhibitions
2008
Everlasting, BUIA Gallery (solo)
TIMELESS, Morris Museum, Morris, NJ (forthcoming)
Exit Art Benefit Auction, Exit Art, New York
2007
Holiday!, BUIA Gallery, NY
Sunny, Clear, and Cool, BUIA Gallery, NY
Quotidian, BUIA Gallery, NY
Invisible Jet, BUIA Gallery, NY
2006
Death by Misadventure, BUIA Gallery, NY (solo)
Breezer, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY
New Videos, Monkey Town, Brooklyn
Fred and Friends, Shephard University, West Virginia
Forest, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
2005
The Last Days of Terror Mansion, Artists Space, New York, NY (performance)
Human After All, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY (two person show with Kadar Brock)
NBC, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY
In the Ring, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Crystalis, The Peekskill Project, Peekskill, NY
NINETEENEIGHTY: Art Show, RARE, New York, NY
New York to Portland, Disjecta, Portland, OR
Dum Dum Grown-Up Art, HEREart, New York, NY
Ides of March, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
2003
[r]evolution-warface, Pamela Auchincloss Project Space, New York, NY
Waco Show, Ann Street Gallery, New York, NY
Goya is WAY Better than You, Box Gallery, Brisbane, Australia (solo)
We Do What We Like and We Like What We Do, Atlantic Conference, Brooklyn, NY
The Beginning is the End, Atlantic Conference, Brooklyn, NY
2002
August Arts, Raw Space, New York, NY
Painting Pals, The Cooper Union, New York, NY (two person show with Kirsten Deirup)
2001
Summer Group Show, Yale, Norfolk, CT
Intercollegiate Group Show, Pratt Institute, New York, NY

Bibliography
Schwendener, Martha, The New Yorker. April 2, 2007
Rogers, Melissa. The whimsical world of Fred and Friends, Picket. February 1, 2006
Finch, Charlie. The Decline and Fall of Painting, Artnet. May, 2005
Laster, Paul. NINETEENEIGHTY, Flavorpill. July 23, 2004
Robinson, Walter. Weekend Update, Artnet. November 2005
Smith, Roberta. Making an entrance at any age, New York Times. May 6, 2005

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