Jon Taner

“It’s tempting to tether ourselves to the familiar comfort of the way things are, but fulfillment is often discovered in the unpredictable and unknown.”
Jaeda DeWalt
“This idea of fulfillment as articulated by the photographer and poet Jaeda DeWalt finds particular resonance in my thoughts. Fulfillment can mean many things to many people. To an artist, the printed word, the harmonies and counterpoint of music, the voice and gesture of the dramatic arts, or the colors and blank surfaces of the painter, fulfillment comes in the act of intimate communication with the reader, listener, audience, or viewer. All art is a reaching out to share the very personal vision of the artist with others.

I have used shape, color and scale to create a sense of things both strange and familiar; to flavor the known with the unknown; and give to the viewer a sense of discovery amid scenes and objects. This intriguing ambiguity for the viewer is a result of their memory, abstraction of the natural world, surrealist images, and the melding of all these things into a subjective interpretation.”

Earliest studies at The Art Students League, New York City, NY
Summer Session at the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Fine Art, California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of Art), Oakland, CA
Master of Fine Art, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Private studies with Master Printmaker Bernard Greenwald, Stottville and Hudson, NY
Studies in Fine Art Appraisal at New York University, New York City, NY

2020 Bangor Art Society, Open Juried Show, 1st Place, Mixed media
2019 All Small, small works show, Sohn's Gallery, Bangor, Maine
2019 Sohn's Gallery, Bangor, Maine, solo exhibit
2018 Outside In, One Art Space, New York City, NY
2017-2018 Draw Cut Shoot Print Assemble, Works on Paper, The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie
2017 Brassworks and Gallery 491, Pop-Up Gallery shows in Montclair, NJ
2017 Ten street banners displaying reproduction of acrylic/collage painting “Triple E” promoting the arts throughout Montclair, NJ
2017 Studio Montclair Viewpoints 2017, Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ
2016 Traces Threading Through Time, The Gallery at Hillside Square, Montclair, NJ
2015 Montclair Art Museum Gala of the Arts
2014 - 2015 Embler Fine Art, Miami International Airport, American Airlines VIP Lounge
2014 Small Works Show at Lev Shalom Institute, Woodstock, NY
2014 Imlay Fine Art, Montclair, NJ
2013 - 2014 Fulfillment, The Bergen Performing Art Center, Englewood, NJ
2012 Parallax Art Fair, New York City, NY
2011 - 2012 C2 Fine Art, Saint Petersburg, FL
2011 - Present Hopkins Wharf Gallery, North Haven, ME
2010 - Present Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME