Joanna Jones
Joanna Jones | I feel you feeling me
Press Release
/Galerie Gilla Loercher is delighted to present the exhibition "I feel you feeling me" by British painter Joanna Jones (born 1945) from October 12. This is the artist's sixth solo exhibition at the gallery.
The opening is on 11 October 2024 from 7 pm.
The artist talk with Joanna Jones and Laura Padgett will take place on 12 October from 11:00-12:00.
The exhibition will be accompanied by Joanna Jones' catalog, recently published by Edition Galerie Gilla Loercher. ISBN: 978-3-00-075087-8
Gilla Loercher about the work of the British bodypainting artist:
"Joanna Jones has developed a very idiosyncratic visual language over the last four decades, which is probably most closely related to the Abstract Expressionism of Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler or Grace Hartigan. And yet Jones’ approach is quite different, also more radical and immediate. Her imagery is very energetic and expressive, and she allows the viewer to participate in her incredible sense of colour and tone. The painter uses her body exclusively for the application of paint, whereby it is not about frottage here but rather about dancing, flowing movement in the paint and a direct expression of an inner world, her thoughts and feelings. Joanna Jones places the generally large-format canvases on the floor of her studio and proceeds in a kind of ‘blind’ flight into the colour, she then repeats the process again and again, gets up and looks at what has been created almost blindly, and then decides with which colour, with which consistency of colour or with which movement she continues her composition.
The depth effect that her paintings achieve, painted with egg tempera in many layers of the most varied colour textures, is impressive. Her paintings seem to have no beginning and no end. You cannot read the creative process from them either. Images are created that stimulate contemplation and calm and evoke a very sensual colour perception."
Artist Statement Joanna Jones: "I paint using a performative process that positions my body as an agency of a particular kind of knowing, taking painting into the territory of an event – a constitution of elements that make something happen: the consistency of the paint, my choice of colour, what concerns my mind, what vibrates through my body, what rings in my ears. I use my body to create the paintings but it is the paintings that invite the gaze.”
The opening is on 11 October 2024 from 7 pm.
The artist talk with Joanna Jones and Laura Padgett will take place on 12 October from 11:00-12:00.
The exhibition will be accompanied by Joanna Jones' catalog, recently published by Edition Galerie Gilla Loercher. ISBN: 978-3-00-075087-8
Gilla Loercher about the work of the British bodypainting artist:
"Joanna Jones has developed a very idiosyncratic visual language over the last four decades, which is probably most closely related to the Abstract Expressionism of Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler or Grace Hartigan. And yet Jones’ approach is quite different, also more radical and immediate. Her imagery is very energetic and expressive, and she allows the viewer to participate in her incredible sense of colour and tone. The painter uses her body exclusively for the application of paint, whereby it is not about frottage here but rather about dancing, flowing movement in the paint and a direct expression of an inner world, her thoughts and feelings. Joanna Jones places the generally large-format canvases on the floor of her studio and proceeds in a kind of ‘blind’ flight into the colour, she then repeats the process again and again, gets up and looks at what has been created almost blindly, and then decides with which colour, with which consistency of colour or with which movement she continues her composition.
The depth effect that her paintings achieve, painted with egg tempera in many layers of the most varied colour textures, is impressive. Her paintings seem to have no beginning and no end. You cannot read the creative process from them either. Images are created that stimulate contemplation and calm and evoke a very sensual colour perception."
Artist Statement Joanna Jones: "I paint using a performative process that positions my body as an agency of a particular kind of knowing, taking painting into the territory of an event – a constitution of elements that make something happen: the consistency of the paint, my choice of colour, what concerns my mind, what vibrates through my body, what rings in my ears. I use my body to create the paintings but it is the paintings that invite the gaze.”
