Superb Painters: OTIS JONES

 Otis Jones, Five Squares One Empty, 2011, 16 x 16 x 4 inches, acrylic on canvas

Otis Jones is a native of Texas, and still lives & works in Dallas. He makes paintings that are sensual objects constructed of paint & canvas & thick wood stretchers. The surfaces and exposed edges are invested with the history of laborious accumulation of marks and scrapes. The configurations are straightforward formal situations that also resonate with metaphoric clarity. These paintings convey an organic material beauty, and a factual simplicity that is seductive and timeless.

 Otis Jones, Four Red Squares, 2011, 39 x 39 x 4 inches, acrylic on canvas

Otis Jones, Pale Yellow Rectangle with Grey Border, 2011, 59 x 56 x 4 inches, acrylic on canvas

 Otis Jones, Blue Square with Two White Squares, 2011, 16 x 16 x 4 inches, acrylic on canvas

Otis Jones, Black Rectangle with Four Red Rectangles, 2011, 80 x 36 x 4 inches, acrylic on canvas

 Otis Jones, Two Black Circles, 2011, 60 x 42 inches, mixed media on paper

 Otis Jones, Black Rectangle with White Lines, 2009, 71 x 65 x 3 inches, acrylic on linen

Otis Jones, Black Line with White Line, 45 x 2 inches, mixed media on canvas

Images from the Holly Johnson Gallery website