i’m jealous of jon widman
Yep. More amazing, beautifully boring paintings that were shown to me by Leah Giberson while we were in Chattanooga together. This time it’s personal though… this insanely beautiful work {flashe on linen} is by Leah’s brother-in-law, Korean-born, American artist Jon Widman. Stacks of books, boxes, records, and of course, chipmunks. Oh, oh! And look at this:
Ridiculously detailed paintings of the spines of album covers. Who does this?! Jon Widman, I suppose. And also, you’ve seen paintings of the spines of books, but have you ever seen someone do this…
Stacked books, but… they’ve been turned around, so that he can paint the PAGES of the book. Sweet jiminy.
Thanks again to Leah! Keep em coming, lady xo
I MUST have one of the paintings of the album spines. Seriously awesome!!
P.S. When do we get to see pictures from you Beautifully Borning show????
xo
i know! i know! i’m waiting to get the fancy photos back from the gallery… i just have grainy iphone shots!
[...] Oh, I also discovered this fantastic blog while cruising around Pinterest: The Jealous Curator which writes witty little posts discussing new contemporary art works. LOVE it!  I rarely have time to go blog reading but this is now one of my daily morning reading rituals. Today’s post on artist Jon Widman is especially exhilarating! [...]
Wow, wow, wow. The book pages…how wonderful. I wish I’d thought of that.
Love this blog! It always makes me happy.
No pressure – all those question marks are just my uncontained excitement
wow this knocks my socks off! Love the color! Thanks for posting such inspiring works.
WOW! Here I was looking at what appeared to be our vinyl collection and wondering how was that possible when I got to the text saying that I was looking at PAINTINGS of the album covers. Absolutely knocked my panties off. Does this.artist live in Chattanooga? Saw something in the above comments about Chattanooga (where I live). Your posting these works from an amazing artist is beyond inspirational. Thank you!
hi ana! no – he’s from new york i believe. i was in chattanooga with his very talented sister in law, leah giberson when i found his work (through leah!)
[...] painted the sides of record albums”, with a quick reference to my pinterest board, becomes Jon Widman. There are two links there because HE DOESN’T HAVE A WEBSITE and the gallery [...]