WHAT: Otis Jones: Recent Paintings

WHERE: Gebert Contemporary, 558 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501

WHEN: Reception for the artist: Friday, July 5, 5 to 7pm

Exhibition Date: July 5 through August 12, 2013

Gebert Contemporary is honored to announce its first exhibition
of the paintings of Otis Jones.  Visitors to the exhibition will be
delighted to see a rich selection of approximately twelve paintings.  Jones’ embrace of the complex minimalism of abstraction is as exciting as ever.  The viewer is engaged with marks and strokes and stretches of color that are echoed in the actual construction of the works.  Indeed these are paintings, but they are paintings that exude a physicality and force.  Jones has long considered his paintings to be objects, and this is obvious.  These pictures rise up from the wall with their canvases stretched tightly around prominent wooden supports, and the heavy staples sprinkled around the edges seem barely able to contain the fabric.  Jones continues his exploration of black and white and the occasional use of color.  This exhibition represents the enthusiastic re-emergence of Jones on the Santa Fe art scene.

Otis Jones was born in Texas in 1946.  He has exhibited in galleries and museums for over forty years.  The paintings of Otis Jones are included in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, MIT’s List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Springfield Art Museum in Springfield, Missouri,
and the Tyler Museum of Art in Tyler, Texas.  His work may also be
found in distinguished private and corporate collections.

For further information, please contact Jane Egan at 505.992.1100. Thank you!

jegan@gebertcontemporary.com

WHAT:         Covington Jordan: Fable

WHERE:      Gebert Contemporary, 558 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501

WHEN:         Reception for the artist:  Friday, May 24, 5 to 7pm 

                      Exhibition Date:  May 24 through July 1, 2013

Gebert Contemporary is delighted to announce the second exhibition of the paintings of Covington Jordan.  The artist’s current body of work—Fable–continues to explore themes of truth and perception.  Engaging imagery that is both commonplace but open to multiple meanings, these fifteen paintings beg for measured contemplation.  Jordan’s use of burlap and other rugged material presents a visual contrast with the lonely sensitivity of the subject matter.  Depictions of wolves, bouquets of flowers, even the religious imagery of the cross, offer themselves for an emotional scrutiny that compels the viewer to question accepted notions and beliefs.  Using language and stark visual elements, Jordan layers both materials and meaning in a visually beautiful and emotionally challenging group of paintings.

Cov Jordan was born in Arizona and has lived in Santa Fe for the last fifteen years.  Entirely self-taught, Jordan began painting in earnest only five years ago.  His work is in private collections across the country.

For further information, please contact Jane Egan at 505.992.1100.  Thank you!

jegan@gebertcontemporary.com