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until 22.11. | #4413ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from Friday, 11. October 2024 the exhibition I feel you feeling me by the artist Joanna Jones.
Over the last four decades, Joanna Jones (born 1945) has developed a very unique visual language that is probably most closely related to Abstract Expressionism. And yet Jones’ approach is completely different, more radical and immediate. Her pictorial language is very energetic and expressive and she allows the viewer to share in her incredible sense of colour and colour tone. The painter uses only her body to apply the paint, whereby it is not about frottage but rather about a dancing, flowing movement in the paint and an immediate expression of her inner self, her thoughts and feelings. Joanna Jones places the often large-format canvases on the floor of her studio and goes into the paint in a kind of blind flight; she then interrupts the process again and again, stands up and looks at what she has created almost blindly, and then decides which colour, which consistency of paint or which movement she will use to continue her composition.
The depth effect achieved by her paintings, painted with egg tempera in many layers of different colour textures, is impressive. Her paintings seem to have no beginning and no end. You can’t tell the creative process from them either. The result is pictures that inspire contemplation and calm and evoke a very sensual perception of colour.
Joanna Jones Artist Statement: ‘My painting is a performative process, I paint, use my body as a medium and bring my painting to the level of the eventful. The interplay of different elements causes something to happen: The composition of the paint, my choice of colour, what I am dealing with, what is vibrating through my body at the moment and what is ringing in my ears. I use my body to create the images, but it’s the images that invite the gaze.’ (Joanna Jones).
As a young woman, after studying art, Joanna Jones made the acquaintance of the American painter and performance artist Carolee Schneemann and the British performance artist Carlyle Reedy, both about 6-7 years older than Jones, whose performative practices fascinated Jones greatly. At the time, Schneemann and Reedy accompanied Jones in her search for her artistic path.
The artist can tell you a thing or two about how difficult it was for her to be recognised as a painter in the 1980s/90s. At the time, she lived in Frankfurt am Main and knew the city’s renowned male museum directors. Probably the most humiliating feedback she received a few years ago was from an important man in the art world who asked her directly whether she wasn’t too old to use her body for this kind of painting.
The exhibition will be accompanied by the artist’s monographic catalogue, published by Edition Galerie Gilla Lörcher.
Joanna Jones vor ihrem Gemälde “No longer a case of two halfs, 2012. Ei-Tempera auf Leinwand. 240 x 220 cm. Foto: Gilla Lörcher.
The British artist Joanna Jones (born 1945) lives and works in Dover (UK). After graduating from Northwich College of Art, she continued her studies in London at Byam Shaw. Jones has a National Diploma of Design in Painting from Goldsmiths and completed her painting studies at the Royal Academy Schools in 1970. Joanna Jones has received numerous awards and grants for her artistic work, including first prize in the Greater London Council Painting Competition in 1969, a grant from Balmoral Artists’ House in 2000 and the Arts Council England Year of the Artist Award for her work at Samphire Hoe in 2001.
Her work has been shown in many international exhibitions: Arts Council England (UK); Royal Academy, London (UK); Wrexham Arts Centre, North Wales (UK); The City Gallery of Leicester, (UK); Leicester City Museum, (UK); Citadel, Dover (UK); National Gallery of Canada, Montreal (CDN); Taipei Gallery, New York (US); Künstlerhaus Balmoral, Bad Ems (D); London Biennale (UK); The Turner Contemporary, Margate (UK); Frankfurter Kunstverein; Stadtmuseum Bad Ems (D); Museum Mühlheim (D); Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz (A); Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia (CY); Pharos Trust, Melina Mercouri Cultural Centre, Nicosia (CY); Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt (D); Städtische Galerie, Bad Soden (D); Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (D) and many more.
Vernissage: Friday, 11. October. 2024, from 7 pm
Exhibition period: Friday, 11. October – Friday, 22. November 2024
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Image caption: Joanna Jones. A Cloth towards Gold, 2022. Ei-Tempera auf Leinwand. 110 x 100 cm. Foto: Ute Schendel.
Exhibition Joanna Jones – Galerie Gilla Lörcher | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
