Brian Thomas Jones

Brian Thomas Jones lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He is a multiple disciplinary artist whose wide practice encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, and installation art. All of these areas are represented in this portfolio.

A fascination with gesture and action underlies his large-scale Contemporary Expressionist paintings. In his recent work, Jones executes active mark-making utilizing broad sweeps of the arm with large brushes to make wide strokes that are aleatory in nature. His palette of multitudinous colors is arrived at organically during the painting process.

“I want the surface to be energetic and active enough to pull the viewer into the work, engulfing them in an exuberance of color. I want the viewer to become somewhat disoriented by the lack of composition, yet have an emotional experience through various areas of interest that speak to them personally.”

In other paintings, the “Atmospheres,” his works are nuanced with smooth strokes and muted colors. While still using large gestures in mark-making, he blends and smooths the surface so the viewer has an etherial, liminal experience that transitions from the waking to the dreaming. These works are closer to Impressionistic in that they are softer a...

MFA, Studio Art, Claremont Graduate University
BFA, Film and TV Production, New York University Tisch School of the Arts

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Aversion (lobby), Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2012
LUMEN ESSENCE, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
How long do you mean to be, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL
2019
Micro Macro, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Repeating Fragments (curatorial), Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Matters of Size, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2018
A Matter of Public Record (curatorial), Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Collectivity, Galleries of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO
Emulations (curatorial), MuzeuMM, Los Angeles, CA
Odd Convergences, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Inverted Realities, McNish Gallery, Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA
Disappear Here: Contemporary Photography in Los Angeles, Durden and Ray Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Beverly Hills Art Show, Beverly HIlls, CA
XYZ (curatorial), Durden and Ray Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Round Too, Durden and Ray Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
FAR Bazaar, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA
The Collectivists, Brand Library Gallery, Glendale, CA
2016
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