Jon Parlangeli

DETROIT PAINTER-my work is seeded in process painting and material discovery. Elements of sculpture often show up in the work (Thank you John Chamberlian), and through process and experimentation the works become a conglomeration of powerful visual elements. Simultaneously, and subconsciously, they also become infused with natural history, modern thought and perception.



Still, process is everything to my work, and generally outweighs the final product in terms of importance because of the informational and emotional release of creation.



My current body of work is focused surface primarily using the figure as both reference and lesson. These paintings exist, with their own distinct voice, somewhere in between de Kooning's women and Schnabel's plate paintings. To me they are the answer to surface and movement I have been searching for over many years. They represent a strong personal understanding of where we are as a people today...complicated, ever changing as we experience innovation, age, possibly religion and the grit of life. They are predatory as we are as a species, hedonistic as ever and become an amalgamation of beauty.

WMU 1988-1991 Sculpture
WSU 1991-1994 Painting

Season 1-Myartisreal.com 07/08/17

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 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

Featured Saatchi Online: Glitz and Glamour Collection: Inspired by Film and Television Collection 08/15

Featured Saatchi Online: Inspired by Warhol Collection, 08/03/15

Featured Saatchi Online: Street Art Collection, 07/27/15

Featured Saatchi Online: Artist of the Day, 12/24/2014

Featured Saatchi Online: 3 Artists New This Week, 12-22-2014

Art Detroit-Dell Pryor Gallery, Detroit MI, 2014

Re:View-A CCS Alumni Show-CCS Valade Gallery, Detroit, MI, April 2014-Artwork used as invitation c...