ABOUT

Jeffrey Cortland Jones is interested in: Locating, apprehending then releasing, the resistance of a color then surrendering to it, a hard edge as it softens, the slight peeking that come from covering and layering, that space between the wall and object, when shallow and deep appear the same, what it’s like to look through the fog, when a mostly matte surface shifts to a little tinge of gloss that hangs out at the edge that place between misplacing and finding, how white can be both warm and cool at the same time, when you find that correcting is making it worse, the moment when a stable stack is on the verge of collapse, when contemplation breaks down and you go for it.

Jeffrey Cortland Jones is a painter, curator, and professor who lives in Southwestern Ohio. His work has been widely exhibited and has been written about in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, Contemporary Art Review LA , Arts + Culture and New American Paintings, and featured in over 200 exhibitions since 2010. Solo exhibitions have been hosted in venues across the US and internationally, including Germany and Australia. He received a Master of Fine Art from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, both in Painting and Drawing. Jeffrey is a Professor of Art at the University of Dayton where he heads the Painting program. In addition to making work, Jeffrey also actively curates exhibitions at a number of galleries and alter- native spaces, including Divisible Projects, a project space he co-founded in 2014.