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About the Artist: Boston-primarily based artist Nygel Jones gained a BFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Montserrat Faculty of Art, where by he analyzed sculpture, painting, and other varieties of media.
The artist generates unique wall-art constructions created from numerous elements which include wooden, paint, identified objects, and copper in dynamic shapes and kinds. These works are enclosed in artist-created frames that he results in for each function, and which act as an extension of the works on their own.
The artist is represented by Elizabeth Clement High-quality Artwork. Upcoming week, the gallery will current new operates by Jones at the Hamptons Great Art Honest, wherever the artist will also be in attendance. Check out the artist and vendor at Booth 232 in Southampton, New York.
Nygel Jones, Shape Movement. Courtesy of Elizabeth Clement Fantastic Art.
Why We Like It: The artist’s inspirations are wide-ranging and usually rooted in his childhood in the 1990s, encompassing references to pop society, tunes, devices, know-how, and style. The shades and shapes discovered in his constructions acquire inspiration from LEGOs, anime, comedian textbooks, vehicles, superheroes, and Star Wars. Often the will work have musical titles, a testomony to the artist’s have history. Jones will come from a family members of woodworkers, carpenters, and musicians his grandfather, Max Jones, was a jazz musician who played with Duke Ellington and Billie Vacation.
According to the Artist: “My general practice is composed of painting and developing designs, in ways that lengthen over and above our known present geometric shapes. It is a psychological exercising, like fixing a strategic video game with a distinct equation. The shape’s style and design is encouraged by any random imagined out of my subconscious, coming from memory to daily knowledge or basically emotion and emotion. It’s a visual metaphor for the common nature of musical inspiration. The frames are an extension of the shapes within and encapsulate the essence of repetition and melody through every single reduce facet, like beats or notes on a scale.”
See new works by the artist underneath.
Nygel Jones, The Celebration. Courtesy of Elizabeth Clement High-quality Artwork.
Nygel Jones, F.E. Shape. Courtesy of Elizabeth Clement Good Art.
Nygel Jones, Aqua Form 2. Courtesy of Elizabeth Clement High-quality Art.
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