Jon Parlangeli

Statement:
CHANGE IS HEALTHY, GROWTH IS NECCESSARY, EXPLORATION IS LIFE: PORTRAITS AND PLANTS: My work offers less about the detailed physicality of nature and instead captures the purest emotions bestowed upon the human condition by exposure to nature. The idea of life is given by stroke, passion by line, belief via color, and all displayed as offerings to our truest self.

Bio:
To Michigan artist Jon Parlangeli there is no other path but to constantly ask and then answer questions via different modalities within his medium. This leads to new explorative bodies of work offering differing styles, genres, or techniques that satiate his curiosity for the space between real and the abstract. Parlangeli uses both nature and figure as his muse often jostling between them to solve internal conundrums exposed during studio sessions. Standing over such processes is his artistic signature, color. Born partially color blind, Parlangeli uses color as his weapon of indelicacy often pushing beyond subtle yet achieving a cosmopolitan of sublime.

Parlangeli is a seasoned painter who has placed works within corporate and private collections throughout the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. His works have been shown in the US and international...

Education:

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

NOT PLANNING ANY SHOWS FOR 2024 IN ORDER TO BUILD UP MY PORTFOLIO OF AVAILABLE WORKS.


Concerning Landscape, Detroit Artists Market and Henry Ford, Detroit, MI 2023​

Hatchback 16, Hatch Gallery Hamtramck, MI April 2022

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

Plus One, 333 Midland, Detroit, 2020

Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt/Messe, Singulart, 2020

Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong, Singulart, May 2019

The Heat is On, Detroit Artists Market, July 2018

Black Box Gallery, Contemporary Portraiture, Featured Artist-Inagural Exhibition, Dearborn June 2018

GIFC Show, Art Athina, Athens Greece, 0-0 Gallery, L.A., May 2017

Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Regional Finals Exhibition, Charles H Wright Museum, Detroit 10/28/16

Mixed Palette, Galerie Camille, Detroit, 10/12/16

Glimpse, Galerie Camille, Detroit, 01/22/16

Coming Home, Color and Light by Jon Parlangeli, Woods Gallery, Hunting Woods, 10/15/15

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 Raipids 9/17/15

We Have a Dream Group Show-Inner State Gallery, Detroit MI, opening 1/24/15

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