My art addresses issues of non-relational referents, temporal vulnerabilities, and
often remote, dissimilar elements creating a visual dialogue within a primary
ground of art-historical fusion. This process lends itself to an understanding of
my work by way of a Yeatsian premise: that which exists through itself is called
meaning...
often remote, dissimilar elements creating a visual dialogue within a primary
ground of art-historical fusion. This process lends itself to an understanding of
my work by way of a Yeatsian premise: that which exists through itself is called
meaning...
selected exhibitions: adell mcmillan gallery "2006 pacific northwest art annual" university of oregon, eugene art centric art around oregon juried annual-oct 2007 corvallis, oregon clatsop community college, astoria oregon one person show art center gallery april 1996 coos art museum, coos bay oregon public hanging 1996 january-march 1996 expressions west juried exhibit june 2001 'honorable mention" biennial 2006 november bay area artists association juried annual dec. 2007-feb. 2008 deer creek gallery, roseburg oregon summer 2001 douglas county library headquarters invitational october-december 1996 eugene public library oregon crafted group show-july 2007 frameworks gallery, grants pass oregon one person show april 1998 graven images gallery, ashland oregon one person show screenprints and monotypes july 1998 giustina gallery, osu, corvallis oregon one person show July 2005 da vinci days August 2005 linn-benton community college, albany oregon the art gallery september-october 1995 maude kerns art center, eugene oregon art and the vineyard july 1995 day of the dead exhibition october 1997 omni gallery, portland oregon february 1996 september 1996 april 1997 june 1998 april 1999 september 2000 oregon state capitol, salem oregon celebration of the arts1995-october 1995 redding museum of art, redding california annual fine arts juried competition 1998 rogue gallery and art center, medford oregon 4th state of jefferson juried biennial exhibit october 1995 invitational august 1997 salem public library, salem oregon one person show august 2005 umpqua community college, roseburg oregon one person show february 20-march 23, 2007 crater lake centenial celebration art exhibit whipple fine arts center july 2001 umpqua valley arts association, roseburg oregon two person show hallie brown ford gallery april 1996 two person show hallie brown ford gallery october 1997 uvaa associated exhibits: mercy medical center lobby october-november 1997 shobu cultural center, shobu japan uvaa membership exhibit, august 2006 "hard art" non-representational exhibit september 2006 100 valleys first annual juried exhibit sept. 2007 whatcom museum, bellingham washington northwest international juried exhibition june 1994 private collections: ashland oregon, denver colorado, chicago illinois, seattle washington, portland oregon, roseburg oregon, grants pass oregon, idleyld park, oregon, new york new york, baltimore maryland, boise idaho, richmond virginia, shobu, japan |
Jon Leach Studio
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"...the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the
brain of the living...a beginner who has learnt a new language always
translates it back into his mother tongue, but he has assimilated the
spirit of the new language and can freely express himself in it only
when he finds his way in it without recalling the old and forgets his
native tongue in the use of the new"
~Karl Marx: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
brain of the living...a beginner who has learnt a new language always
translates it back into his mother tongue, but he has assimilated the
spirit of the new language and can freely express himself in it only
when he finds his way in it without recalling the old and forgets his
native tongue in the use of the new"
~Karl Marx: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte