Jon Parlangeli

Basically landscapes and florals when it’s warm and figures when it’s cold and nothing grows… and sometimes somewhere in between.

Looking back at a 30+ year bouillabaisse of creative adventure (and misadventure), the single most important lesson I can convey is to be original, paint for the soul, and love what you do — because much of the rest is unpredictability disguised as a business.

I’m fundamentally a process-driven painter. I live for immersive studio marathons filled with experimentation, doubt, faith, revision, and discovery — constantly chasing ideas that resist me at first but often reveal themselves later. It’s a steady pursuit of something truer, something essential.

The work itself occupies the space between the real and the abstract, anchored in the physical world through nature and the figure as muse. These genres are unified through color. Being partially color blind, I approach color not as ornament but as force — sometimes pushing subtlety to its limits while still pursuing a cosmopolitan sense of the sublime.

My work has been placed in corporate and private collections throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Education:

BFA, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI
College for Creative Studies, Detroit MI

NO SHOWS PLANNED FOR 2025 THROUGH 2026

The Game Show, Hatch Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, December 2024

Try Something New, Patch and Remington Gallery, Marcellus, MI, September 2024

​Concerning Landscape, Detroit Artists Market, January 2023

Hatchback 16, Hatch Gallery Hamtramck, MI April 2022

Some Art I Bought Last Year, Collingwood Arts Center, Toledo, October 2021

Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt Germany, October, Singulart, 2020

Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong, Singulart, May 2019

The Heat is On, Detroit Artists Market, August 2018

Black Box Gallery-Contemporary Portraiture-Inaugural Exhibition-Featured Artist-Jun 2018

GIFC Show, Tours- Art Athina, Athens Greece, Chart Art Fair, Copenhagen, Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo, 0-0 Gallery, L.A., May 2017

Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Regional Finals Exhibition, Charles H Wright Museum, Detroit October 2016

Mixed Palette, Galerie Camille, Detroit, October 2016

Glimpse, Galerie Camille, Detroit, January 2016

Coming Home, Color and Light by Jon Parlangeli, Woods Gallery, Hunting Woods, October 2015

Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Regional Finals Exhibition, Charles H Wright Museum, Detroit 09/17/15

CrOp, Detroit Artists, M. Chard Art Consulting, Harris Building, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids ...