"Thomas Williams Jones: Three Decades of Watercolors"
1999-08-04 until 1999-10-03
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, WA, USA United States of America

he watercolors of Thomas William Jones are so evocative of memory and seductive of eye that it is tempting to write about them at length. It is better, however, to step aside and let the images speak for themselves or, more correctly, to allow the images to establish a dialogue with the viewer, unhindered. Nevertheless, one point needs to be made clear: these watercolors are not depictions of the things they seem to portray. This is not as contradictory as it sounds. Jones does not paint objects per se; rather he paints the memories of his feelings about those objects. He often chooses a site or an object that he knows. Looking through the present to the past it evokes, he changes or eliminates details until the image matches his recollection of a specific moment. There is great technical mastery here, so great, that it doesn1t stand in the way of the direct experience of the images. This is a rare talent and gives Jones1 work a potency that enhances the poetry of his vision. Richard V. West Executive Director

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