Jonathan Ricci
Paintings
Hamilton New Jersey


Avairy: Carrying Yourself Like a Queen

Aviary 2008-09
The image of the bird has monopolized my recent paintings in an almost obsessive way. Its meaning is two-fold; it is based in memory and in metaphor.

In the Pocket, 2008

Recent Exhibitions
Radius250 Exhibition at Artspace Plant Zero, Richmond, VA. Honorable Mention Award.

Pasquale II, 2006

Paintings 2005-07
Many of these works in this series have collaged images, notes and letters associated with the person. They are symbolic portraits with a personal narrative of family and close friends.

 

Cutting Layouts I. 2005

Collage and Works on Paper
Personal artifacts, letters and photographs are all sources of inspiration in these works.

Although my artwork has roots in traditional painterly abstraction, I have always considered myself a figurative artist. In my most recent paintings and mixed media works, the body reappears, it takes its form from the simplicity of childhood images.

 

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