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Artist Statement:
Paintings are easy to talk
about if you’re talking to
yourself, but become elusive
when another's eyes are
involved. That said these
paintings are about discourse.
When I’m painting the
discourse is private, between
the painting and me. It’s
akin to talking about talking
about paintings. ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Selected One person
Exhibitions
2011 Dennis Michael Jones,
A Solo Exhibition of His
Installations at The Art
Gallery of Windsor, Canada
2009 Dennis Michael Jones,
a Solo Exhibition of Paintings
at The O. K. Harris Gallery,
New York.
2007 Dennis Michael Jones,
Oakland University Art
Gallery, Oakland University,
Rochester, MI
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Artist Galleries:
O K Harris Gallery, New York,
NY.
Art Gallery of Windsor,
windsor, Canada.
Oakland University Art Gallery
The Drawing Center Slide
Registry, New York, NY.
www.drawingcenter.org
Artist Space Artists File, New
York, NY.
www.artistspace.org...
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Artist Reviews:
2009 Windsor Biennial: Kick
Out The Jams, posted by Byrne
McLaughlin on Canadian Art,
6/4/09.
2009 Windsor Biennial, review
by Paul Breschuk at Akimblog,
posted May 27th, 2009
Fundamental(ist) Exhibition
Catalog, published by Oakland
University Art Gallery. 25
images and an essay by Dick
Goody, Gallery Curator.
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Dennis Jones Biography:
| Biographical information for Dennis Jones can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Married
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
architecture, reading, poetry, travel, weight lifting, running, volleyball |
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many
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I became aware at an early age that I could explore and communicate ideas through drawing and making things. I continue to discover that it is the freedom of thought that sustains me as an artist. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Originally from Detroit, Dennis Jones now resides in Plymouth, Michigan. He is a licensed practicing architect, an educator and artist. He completed his formal education as an architect from the University of Detroit in 1983, where he was awarded a teaching scholarship. In 1984, he received a Second Place Award of $5000.00, with his entry for The New York Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Competition. In 1988, while in his graduate studies at Wayne State University he was awarded a scholarship from The Detroit Artist's Market. He completed his Master in Fine Arts degree, in Painting, in1990. Since, he has exhibited his work extensively in the Detroit area and beyond.
Jones has been an adjunct professor of color theory, 2d and 3D design concepts at The College for Creative Studies since 2002. He has also taught architectural design and drawing at The University of Detroit, Wayne State University and Macomb County Community College
Jones' work will be included in the Windsor Biennial, opening at the Art gallery of Windsor, in March and running until July of 2007. The Art gallery of Windsor is the Museum for the City of Windsor, Canada. A new body of his work consisting of approximately twenty paintings will be shown at Meadow Brook Art Gallery on the campus of Oakland University in November of 2007.
Dennis Jones is one of four artists participating in 'Dehuman', a traveling exhibition that opened in January 2006 at the Thames Gallery, in Chatham, Ontario. The exhibition will travel to Kenderdine Art Gallery, on the campus of University of Saskatchewan, Definitely Superior Gallery, in Thunder Bay, Gallery Lambton, in Sarnia, WKP Kennedy in North Bay and then to The Woodstock gallery in Woodstock, Ontario in 2008. He is the only artist from the U.S. included in this exhibition.
In August of 2002, Jones completed a commission to design and install a large mural and stone sculpture located in the new Plymouth High School. Jones was responsible for budgeting, managing and executing the thirty thousand dollar project. Also in 2002, he won a Best of show Award, for his triptych entry to the Artists Among Us Exhibition. In April of 2004, Jones received a Second Place Award of $2000.00 for his entry in the Michigan Fine Arts Competition held at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
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