Faces and Stories: Paintings by Jimi Jones
As a founding member of the Neo-Ancestral Art Movement, Jones explores and celebrates African American cultural production, sensitivities and values.
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Faces and Stories: Paintings by Jimi Jones
As a founding member of the Neo-Ancestral Art Movement, Jones explores and celebrates African American cultural production, sensitivities and values. His larger collaged canvases and smaller political paintings tackle an array of socio-cultural issues and are a reaction to national and global politics and world events often placed in an African American historical context.
Jones’s collaged paintings combine symbols, figures, and events in order to tell a story and relate Jones’ point of view. These images are an invitation to think about how art continues to be a platform for reflecting relevant themes and issues expressed from the artist's perspective. Jones is offering the viewer to consider the ways in which art shapes national identity and how artists respond to current and historic popular culture.
The portrait paintings in this exhibition act like an autobiographical timeline charting Jones’s development as an artist and each portrait represents a personal story. Each conveys something familiar or compelling to the people depicted and their relationship with Jones. The portraits have significant meaning through the artist’s perspective.
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