BENJAMIN JONES Art on Paper 2016
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BENJAMIN JONES
Benjamin Jones creates haunting images that reveal a distinct visual language. He combines an appreciation of outsider art with a sophisticated technical skill to create his own psychologically compelling style. Through extensive and continuous research, Jones incorporates his awareness of culture and current events into his work, creating drawings that are simultaneously seductive and disconcerting. Jones received his BFA from the State University of West Georgia. He displays his work in Georgia, London, and Boise. His drawings are included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; Morris Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Ogden Museum of Southern Art; Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia; and numerous corporate and private collections.
Avenger Mixed media on paper 16” x 12”
Peaceful Village Mixed media on paper 29.5” x 45”
Anne Bancroft Mixed media on paper 14.5” x 11.5”
Birds of Prey Mixed media on paper 14.5” x 11”
Blue Mixed media on paper 12” x 16”
Brainwashing Mixed media on paper 15” x 12”
Burial Mixed media on paper 14” x 11.5”
DNA Mixed media on paper 11” x 17”
Kindness Mixed media on paper 12� x 16�
Cry Baby Mixed media on paper 14.5” x 10.5”
My Demons Need Feeding Mixed media on paper 14.75” x 11”
With My Red Devils Mixed media on paper 14.5” x 10.5”
Solo Mixed media on paper 14.5” x 10.5”
BENJAMIN JONES SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 2011 2010 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2002 1998 1994 1993
Observations, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho New Works, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho Line and Language, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho Sins + Virtues, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Drawing a Diversion, John Martin Gallery, London, England Line, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho Benjamin Jones @ Art London, Royal Hospital Chelsea, London Benjamin Jones, Barbara Archer Savannah, Savannah, Georgia The Alexander Homage Drawing Series, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Works on Paper, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho Benjamin Jones Drawing, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Drawing, 1708 Gallery, Richmond Virginia Isolation, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Figure, Gray Matters Gallery, Dallas, Texas Works on Paper, 1987-2002, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia A Short Life, Sandler-Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Dr. Frankenstein’s Animal Show, Mattress Factory Building, Atlanta, Georgia Nature’s Oddity, Billboard, Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2006
Art on Paper New York, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho 10 Artists 48 Days, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho Drawing Inside the Perimeter, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Winter Exhibition, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho 4 x 4, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Dallas Art Fair, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho Trading Places Part 1: Selected Works from the MOCA GA Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Dallas Art Fair, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho 25, Stewart Gallery, Boise Idaho Obsolescence – Invitational, Stewart Gallery, Boise Idaho Dallas Art Fair, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho Is Anybody Out There, Winter Group Exhibition, Stewart Gallery, Boise Idaho Los Angeles Art Fair, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho Art Chicago, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho Black and White, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho Master Drawings London, London, England Group Exhibition, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho Objects of Desire, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Graphic Expressions: American Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Permanent Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Evidence: Paper Works, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
2005 2004 2003 2002 1999 1998 1995 1994 1988
Recent Acquisitions, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana Drawing Conclusions, Georgia State University Rialto Center for the Performing Arts, Atlanta, Georgia Contemporary Southern Drawings from the Permanent Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects. New York, New York Winter Group Exhibition, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho Gallery Artist Group Exhibition, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho Reading: material Volume Gallery New York, New York Georgia Triennial, City Gallery East, Atlanta, Georgia Winter Group Exhibition, Stewart Gallery, Boise, Idaho New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana National Endowment for the Arts and Southern Arts Federation Regional Fellows, Southeast Center of Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Creating in Crisis: Making Art in the Midst of AIDS, Spaces Contemporary Art Center, Cleveland, Ohio Artists in Georgia, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
SELECTED AWARDS 2000 1997 1996 1994 1993
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Individual Artist Grant Residency Fellowship, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia Residency Fellowship and CGR Scholarship, The Hambridge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia National Endowment for the Arts and Southern Arts Federation Regional Fellowship Georgia Council for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant in Drawing
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York, New York Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennslyvania High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana Mennello Museum of American Folk Art, Orlando, Florida Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky Huntsville Museum Of Art, Huntsville, Alabama Morris Museum Of Art, Augusta, Georgia State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia Phillip Aarons + PRINTED MATTER New York Patch Adams, M.D. + Gesundheit Institute, Arlington, Virginia The Judith Alexander Foundation, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia Lucinda Bunnen, Atlanta, Georgia Edie Falco, New York, New York King and Spalding, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia James Brett, London, England