Jeffrey Cortland Jones Closer, Still
Debut (Rough 61), 2016 enamel, gesso, latex, and graphite on acrylic panel 14 x 11 in
Jeffrey Cortland Jones Closer, Still June 23rd – July 30th, 2016
Public (Of A Shyness), 2016 enamel on acrylic panel 14 x 11 in.
Bursar (Uta Squaw), 2016 enamel, gesso, latex, and graphite on acrylic panel 14 x 11 in
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to present Closer, Still, Jeffrey Cortland Jones’ second solo exhibition with the gallery. The subtlety of Jeffrey Cortland Jones’ work belies its visual impact; impact which discloses itself to those viewers who opt to examine the work most fully. At Lirst glance, his constructed shapes are white, orderly stacks, but closer inspection reveals the tensions between them. His angles are not quite 90 degrees, his whites are often not truly white at all, and the slivers of color and texture underlying them call the depicted spatial depth into question. Inspired by the gritty industrialism of an urban environment, Jones considers himself, in a way, a landscape painter. His marks reference a hastily re-painted exterior wall, the metallic scratches left behind on concrete from a skateboard, a weatherworn door of an abandoned building. Over all, his paintings are a celebration of unexpected details and overlooked beauty.
Coping (Vert), 2016 enamel on acrylic panel 14 x 11 in.
Jones possesses an exceptional sensitivity for color. He pushes colors to their limits, right up to the moment just before they become white, and then layers them over fully saturated colors, allowing a transparency for those richer hues to peek through. The relationship between his colors is enriched and exposed by a process of layering and sanding away, working one masked-off area of the surface at a time. In this current body of work, this process is less carefully controlled, allowing the Linal image to be more gestural and imprecise, with more of the foundational layers of saturated color coming through. Jeffrey Cortland Jones has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States. His work has been featured in the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, the NIAD Art Center, and the Brooklyn Art Library among other institutions and galleries. He received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Cincinnati. Jones currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and is a professor at the University of Dayton, where he heads the Painting program.
Switch (Backside Smith), 2016 Enamel on acrylic panel 48 x 36 in
Replicant (Mute Grab), 2016 Enamel on acrylic panel 48 x 32 in
Konqr (A Rush and A Push), 2016 Enamel on acrylic panel 48 x 36 in
Comparatively (Darkslide), 2016 Enamel on acrylic panel 48 x 36 in
Shorn (Loud Loutish Lover), 2016 enamel, gesso, latex, and graphite on acrylic panel 14 x 11 in
Parted (CamouLlage), 2016 enamel on acrylic panel 14 x 11 in.
Thorn (Bedsit Disco Queen), 2016 enamel on acrylic panel 14 x 11 in.
Underpass (You'll Dance to Anything), 2016 enamel on acrylic panel 14 x 11 in.
Education The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH . 2000 Masters of Fine Art (Terminal) . Painting and Drawing The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN 1998 Bachelors of Fine Art . Painting and Drawing Gallery Representation/Af6iliation Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH 2015-present Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA. 2015-present Galleri Urbane, Dallas + Marfa, TX. 2014-present Gray Contemporary, Houston. TX. 2014-present Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY. 2012-present Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY. (Llat Lile) 2010-present Solo Exhibitions 2016 “Closer, Still”, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York. NY “Clenched Fists, Black Eyes: Jeffrey Cortland Jones”, NIAD Art Center, San Francisco Area, CA “TBA” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. 2015 “Up, Down, Turn Around”, Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX. "Movement, Substance, Technique : Marfa", Galleri Urbane, Marfa, TX. "Movement, Substance, Technique", Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX. "In A Lonely Place : Mesh, Temptation, Hurt", Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. 2014 "FACIT / FACET : Jeffrey Cortland Jones", Mt. Comfort Gallery, Indianapolis . IN. "Did I See You, See Me (In A New Light)", Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York. NY. "At A Later Date : Jeffrey Cortland Jones", NIAD Art Center (National Institute ofArt and Disabilities), Richmond, CA. "Hushed and Unhurried", Sean Christopher Gallery, Columbus, OH. 2013 "Roll Up Your Sleeves, Were Headed For Winter I Know", Sinclair Community College. The Burnell Roberts Triangle Gallery, Dayton, OH. "After, Closer, Still", RTZ Vegas, Las Vegas, NV. "After, Closer", Laura Moore Fine Art, McKinney, TX. Group Exhibitions (Selected) 2016 “New American Painting: Midwest”, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL. (Forthcoming) “Formal Function: Strategies of Abstraction”, The Carnegie Art Center, Covington, KY. (Forthcoming) "Sideshow Nation : Thru the Rabbit Hole", Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. "Postcards from the Edge 2016", Sikkema Jenkins, New York, NY.
2015 2014
“Humble Iterations”, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY. “Annual Holiday Group Exhibition”, Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA “Focus”, Bluffton University, Bluffton, OH. 2 person "Advocate Through Art : beneLiting The Children’s Assessment Center", Winter Street Studios, Houston, TX. “Therely Bare Redux”, Murray State University, Murray, KY. Chopshop 5 / RABBIT", MARIA’s, Madison, WI. “Unearth”, the University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. “Therely Bare Redux”, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN. “Unlimited Potential”, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY. "Acquired", Occasional Gallery, Burlington, WA. "Jeffrey Cortland Jones, Tim McFarlane, Douglas Witmer", Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX. "New Works by Gallery Artists", Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX. "Advocate Through Art : beneLiting The Children’s Assessment Center", Winter Street Studios, Houston, TX. "Aloe Vera", Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX. "Dialogues", Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX. "artMRKT Hamptons", artMRKT Hamptons (w/Kathryn Markel Fine Arts), Bridgehampton, NY. "Stray Light 3", Color of Energy Gallery, Dayton. OH.
2013 "UC Alumni Art", the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, Cincinnati, OH. "Aqua Art Miami (w/Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, St. Louis, MO.)", Miami, FL. "CONTEXT Miami (w/ Kathryn Markel Fine Arts), Miami, FL. "North Meets South: Jeffrey Cortland Jones and Carrie McGee", The Green Building Gallery, Louisville, KY. 2 person "Finding Nevermind", the Neon Heater, Findlay, OH. 2 person "Wish You Were Here 12", A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. "Win Win", NIAD Art Center (National Institute of Art and Disabilities), Richmond, CA. Curatorial Work Jeffrey Cortland Jones is the founder and sole curator of No Future Projects, an online curatorial project 2009 – present http://www.nofutureprojects.com/ Dayton based artist Mike Elsass and Jones co-founded, Divisible, a physical gallery space at the Front Street Warehouse in 2015. He serves as the lead curator. 2015 – present
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