#erikjones

"Quizás pudiera vivir de mi ingenio. La jornada de ocho horas me parecía algo imposible, y sin embargo todo el mundo se sometía a ella. Y la guerra, todos hablaban de la guerra en Europa. No me interesaba la historia del mundo, sólo la mía. Vaya porquería. Tus padres controlaban los años de tu desarrollo jodiéndote todo el rato. Luego, cuando ya eras capaz de vivir por ti mismo, otros querían embutirte un uniforme para que te pudieran volar el culo.⠀ ⠀ "Maybe I could live off my wits. The eight-hour day seemed impossible to me, and yet everyone submitted to it. And the war, everyone talked about the war in Europe. I was not interested in world history, only Mine. Shit. Your parents controlled the years of your development by fucking you all the time. Then, when you were able to live for yourself, others wanted to put a uniform on you so they could blow your ass off.⠀ ⠀ Charles Bukowski⠀⠀ La senda del perdedor / The path of the loser⠀ & Erik Jones (artist)⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #portraitpainting #portraitart #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #contemporarypainting #contemporarypainter #contemporarypaintings #contemporarypaintings #contemporary_art #contemporarypainters #contemporaryfigurativeart #modernart #modernpainting #artgallery #contemporaryartgallery #figurativeart #figurativepainting #figurativeportrait #vagabondwho #marcopolorules #erikjones https://www.instagram.com/p/COuYahSHvjE/?igshid=hpztrm1i8vq8

In progress shot of a painting I created for Caron Fragrances

Amazing new painting by @erikjonesart ❤ . . . #beautifulbizarremagazine #contemporaryart #painting #surrealart #figurativeart #erikjones #rainbow

Erik Jonesart in Koreatown.

Born in sunny St. Pete, Florida, Erik Jones eventually landed in Brooklyn, New York after graduating from the Ringling College of Art and Design. Jones started out working primarily as an illustrator but as the market for his work has grown he is now able to spend most of his time doing fine art work for galleries—using a variety of mediums to enhance his work with “non-representational forms that could be said to mimic geometric high-end fashion.” He returned to St. Pete for the 2015 Shine Festival, to create this colorful “billboard for beauty” on the side of Andi Matheny’s acting school at 1st Ave S. and 23rd St. Helping Jones translate his normally gallery-scale work onto a wall of this size he leaned heavily on the Vitale Bros. and their decades of experience as an integral part of the St. Pete art scene. “They were great” Jones says, and all he had to do was come in and paint the “abstract-ish, paint throw-y parts” he adds with a laugh.  @erikjonesart  @vitalebros  @shineonstpete  @ilovetheburg  

Currently on view at @Hashimoto_NYCSF (NYC)

I finished a big painting yesterday.