Jon Parlangeli

Basically landscapes and florals when its warm and figures when its cold and nothing grows...and/or 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 the rest is just chaos theory disguised as a business.
I'm basically a process guy, so I live for manic, adrenaline infused studio marathons filled with experimentation, fear, faith and literally tons of profanity; Constantly drunk with creative lust or hungover from bad ideas (that later turned out to be good) and all of it in steady chase of my truest self.
The work itself opines the space between real and abstract and is anchored into the physical world using both nature and figure as muse. These genres are then bonded into a cohesive body through color. Being partially color blind, I use color more as a weapon of indelicacy where subtlety is tested, even strained, while still achieving a cosmopolitan of sublime.
My works have been placed within corporate and private collections throughout the US, 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 ...