
John Paul Jones
Nationally honored as a printmaker, Jones becomes the first local artist to be seen in retrospect at the Museum. Shown again as a painter and a sculptor, there are obvious and expected relationships between the three approaches. A translation of print techniques appears in the rubbed, wiped, scumbled, and textural conditions and recent traces of decalcomania. As well there is the preference for a solid or closely-woven support suggesting a source of method in the absorbency of the monoprint or the manipulation of an inked plate.
The paintings however are not merely ringers spun off, but another