Jonas Gerard

Jonas was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1941. He began his artistic career on the streets of New York City and spent many decades in the Miami area before moving to Asheville, North Carolina, in 2007. Currently operating two galleries in Asheville's River Arts District, both with large studio spaces, Jonas is well known for live painting performances.

Jonas is a self-taught painter. With techniques honed over a lifetime as a working artist, his work is not aimed at intellectual perception; it is aimed at the human heart. His best paintings are those created intuitively with an effortlessness of experience. Good structure, composition and color are achieved without struggle, resulting in the expression of feeling into action, essence of color, and push; and pull forms.

-Jonas operates two studios/galleries in 10,000+ s.f. of space in Asheville, North Carolina.
-President Gerald R. Ford accepted Jonas' painting, "We The People," at the White House in Washington, DC, in 1975. The original painting is 8' in diameter and is a permanent part of the Smithsonian Institution's collection.

Solo Exhibitions

The Asheville Regional Airport
The Asheville Loft, Asheville, NC
Club 151 at the Indigo Hotel, Asheville, NC
Altamont Theater, Asheville, NC
Weinberger Fine Art, Kansas City, MO
Truman Medical center, Kansas City MO, Center for
the Healing Arts Gallery
TEDx, Diana Wortham Theater, Asheville NC
Asheville Community Theatre Gallery, NC
Summit One Gallery, Highlands, NC
Big Arts, Sanibel, FL
Artist in Residence Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL
Slater-Price Fine Art, Soho, NY
NationsBank Sky Gallery, Downtown Miami, FL
Capitol Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Jeanine Cox Fine Art, Miami Beach, FL
Henri Gallery, Washington, DC
ArtiZen Fine Art, Dallas, TX
Art Resources Gallery, Chicago, IL
Mary Bell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Judith Wolov Gallery, Boston, MA
Joan Hod...