{"id":25421,"date":"2016-05-12T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=25421"},"modified":"2016-05-12T12:50:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T19:50:28","slug":"erik-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/12\/erik-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"erik jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/12\/erik-jones\/erik_jones\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25422\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erik_jones.jpg\" alt=\"erik_jones\" width=\"584\" height=\"2172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erik_jones.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erik_jones-81x300.jpg 81w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erik_jones-275x1024.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/12\/erik-jones\/erik_jones2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25423\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25423\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erik_jones2.jpg\" alt=\"erik_jones2\" width=\"584\" height=\"1872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erik_jones2.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erik_jones2-94x300.jpg 94w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erik_jones2-319x1024.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/12\/erik-jones\/erik_jones3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25424\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erik_jones3.jpg\" alt=\"erik_jones3\" width=\"584\" height=\"2262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erik_jones3.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/erik_jones3-264x1024.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This explosion of nostalgia and color is screaming at\u00a0the sticker-collecting, rainbow-loving twelve year old in me. The absolutely gorgeous figures and stunning compositions are in a mature conversation with the art-loving curator in me. This is the work of Brooklyn based artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.erikjonesart.com\/\">Erik Jones<\/a>, and this is a description from his latest show, <em>&#8220;Twenty Sixteen&#8221;<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Jones challenges viewers to see beauty in his chaotic, mixed-media works that merge nude subjects with nonrepresentational, abstract elements. Describing the human figures in his compositions as \u201caesthetic anchors,\u201d they are the calming foreground upon which bursts of color, stenciled shapes and custom-made stickers create surreal landscapes. Using multiple mediums, such as watercolor, acrylic, colored pencils, wax pastels and oil paint, Jones\u2019 portraits are technically complex and express a heightened sense of realism.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And also rainbows, unicorns, and orcas! Sorry, that was the twelve-year old again \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2665<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u00a0\u2665<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">\u2665<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">\u2665<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008080;\">\u2665<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>{Just missed this show&#8230; damn. &#8220;Twenty Sixteen&#8221; was at <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanlevinegallery.com\/exhibits\/erik-jones\/\">Jonathan LeVine in New York<\/a> and just came down at the end of April}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This explosion of nostalgia and color is screaming at\u00a0the sticker-collecting, rainbow-loving twelve year old in me. The absolutely gorgeous figures and stunning compositions are in a mature conversation with the art-loving curator in me. This is the work of Brooklyn based artist\u00a0Erik Jones, and this is a description from his latest show, &#8220;Twenty Sixteen&#8221;: &#8220;Jones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[308,3,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25433,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25421\/revisions\/25433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}