Dennis Michael Jones
SOMETIMES Grouping (red), 63"x108", (12) 21"x27" sheets, acrylic on Rives paper, 2012. $6000.00
Thoughts about Painting
I’m fascinated by numerous ideas, so yes; my approach to making things is diverse, as it calls upon my perceptions of the world and others… I am a painter and I believe that painting, perhaps more than any other media, allows for such variety. Paint can be anything; the material itself, an action, a process of making, a reference to historical precedent, a literal representation, a scribbling of lines, a calling for its own death, or something headily conceptual; its slick, viscous, or flattened consistency is imbedded with all of human experiences and open to infinite readings and shifting reinterpretations. Painting is a language like no other ̶ its nature is entirely, unequivocally, perpetually slippery.
The act of painting attempts to encompass all of human communication...this is its inherent desire, which exists in the magnetism between an image and object. Painting is a synthesis of the imagination and reality, the unknowable and the known; it is a dynamic interrelationship of content and form that provides a basis for its syntax and comprehension. The language of painting is internal, in the place of ideas, yet simultaneously it is about the concrete materiality of the object directly in front of us. Paintings operate in the interchangeable region between thinking (idea) and image (object). This fundamental duality (idea/object) is something that has always fascinated me. I'm a painter, I seek to discover.
>> COLLECT DENNIS MICHAEL JONES
I’m fascinated by numerous ideas, so yes; my approach to making things is diverse, as it calls upon my perceptions of the world and others… I am a painter and I believe that painting, perhaps more than any other media, allows for such variety. Paint can be anything; the material itself, an action, a process of making, a reference to historical precedent, a literal representation, a scribbling of lines, a calling for its own death, or something headily conceptual; its slick, viscous, or flattened consistency is imbedded with all of human experiences and open to infinite readings and shifting reinterpretations. Painting is a language like no other ̶ its nature is entirely, unequivocally, perpetually slippery.
The act of painting attempts to encompass all of human communication...this is its inherent desire, which exists in the magnetism between an image and object. Painting is a synthesis of the imagination and reality, the unknowable and the known; it is a dynamic interrelationship of content and form that provides a basis for its syntax and comprehension. The language of painting is internal, in the place of ideas, yet simultaneously it is about the concrete materiality of the object directly in front of us. Paintings operate in the interchangeable region between thinking (idea) and image (object). This fundamental duality (idea/object) is something that has always fascinated me. I'm a painter, I seek to discover.
>> COLLECT DENNIS MICHAEL JONES
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