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  • Abby Jones

  • 32 / Female
  • Foggy Valley, Iowa, US

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About me:

I am an abstract expressionist oil painter. I live on an acreage in rural Iowa with my son and husband. I have a studio overlooking the woods. I am a Taoist and a philosopher. I am into transcendental meditation, painting, reading, and living. I hope you enjoy my page.



For more information about Artist Abby Jones visit:
http://abbyjonesart.mosaicglobe.com.



Artist Statement

As an abstract expressionist painter, I am fascinated with the basic scientific principle that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Energy changes form from potential energy to kinetic energy and back. I explore the threshold of change; when potential energy becomes kinetic energy. That energy exists in the creative process of art making as well as life. That tension that makes us hold our breath in anticipation and the release into eventual movement is the potential and kinetic energy we encounter in everyday life. My works strive to capture these forms of energy that exist in all of us. I also employ transcendental meditation as a major part of my process. If the potential energy of my idea can move someone to feel an emotion then that is the kinetic energy of life derived from art. If a work can convey that sense of energy to the observer then the piece has done its job.

Abstract Primitive Expressionism

As the elemental dimension of symbolic culture progresses, so does, by equal steps, alienation from the natural. Symbols are essential for the development and maintenance of social order. From symbols come language... from language comes number...from number comes time and order and systematic control. That is the reason why I stay away from symbols. I paint from a transcendental view that is devoid of time and cultural significance and paint as a part of nature as opposed to separate from it. In my work, everyone, regardless of race/sex/religion can find a respite from our everyday modern/industrialized/technologically advanced society.

Wavy Gravy Oil, glitter, aged paper, and stained glass on gallery wrapped canvas. Sold

Abby's work "Wavy Gravy" was recently published in Reed Magazine's 2009 paperback issue. Reed Magazine is a contemporary journal of poetry, prose, and art.

www.reedmag.org

Who I'd like to meet:

Salvador Dali, Edgar Allen Poe, Jackson Pollock, William Carlos Williams, the Dali Lama, Allen Ginsberg, Marcel Proust, Lao-Tzu, Krishna, Steven Hawking, Deepak Chopra, Martin Luther King Jr., Stephen King, Ernest Hemmingway, Jimi Hendrix, Andy Warhol, Henry David Thoreau, Einstein, John Zerzan, Immanuel Kant, Nietzsche, Aristotle, God, J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eusapia Palladino, Nikola Tesla, J. Douglas Kenyon, someone from the Dogon tribe, other artists, primitive man, etc...

Interests

  • General

    family, painting, reading, nature, energy, truth, knowledge, enlightenment, quantum theory, ancient civilization, mysticism, physics, science, religion, transcendental meditation, yoga, gardening, cooking, philosophy, debate, etc.

  • Music

    The Doors, Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Richie Havens, Carol King, Blondie, Pink Floyd, The Clash, Triptofan, Lords of Acid, Cowboy Junkies, Imani Coppola, Fiona Apple, Butthole Surfers, Marilyn Manson, Sex Pistols, Radio Head, Jane's Addiction, Hole, Green Day, Velvet Underground, Triptofan, Zweng, Yeah,Yeah,Yeah's etc...

  • Movies

    Natural Born Killers, Apocalypse Now, Apocalypto, Benny and June, Animal House, Pollock, The History of Rock and Roll, Meatballs, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lemony Snickets' A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Princess Bride, Funny Farm, Stripes, Troy, Nothing But Trouble, STAR WARS (all), Indiana Jones (all), Gladiator, Taxi Driver, The Big Libowski, The Village, The Doors, Porky's, A Clockwork Orange, Half Baked, The Goonies, anything historical, etc. ..

  • Books

    Proust, "Remembrance of Things Past"; Hemmingway, "The Old Man and The Sea"; Hemmingway, "The Sun Also Rises"; Ken Follett, "Pillars of the Earth" & "World Without End"; "The Bhagavad-Gita"; "The Tao Te Ching"; Susanne Clarke, "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell"; Thomas Harris' Hannibal series; Deepak Chopra "The Book of Secrets"; Issac Asimov's "The Collapsing Universe"; The Harry Potter series; "Our Undiscovered Universe", Null Physics; "The Perfection of Yoga","The Davinci Code", "The Historian", "The Catcher in the Rye", "Forbidden History", "Forbidden Science", "A Brief History of Time", "The Tao of Physics", anything historical, etc. The list is endless...

  • Heroes

    My Father and Mother. Family..

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