Plastic Spaces

Working Plastic

2011-03-24T20:42:00.000-07:00

works in progress
Alternate blog launch:
http://workingplastic.blogspot.com/

2010-10-02T17:26:00.000-07:00

Good bye old studio.
Dan and I are relocating to a larger space down the hall. We are also launching our new blog http://thestargods.blogspot.com

Apple Pie Face Complete

2010-05-19T13:32:00.001-07:00

20 copies of Apple Pie Face have been finished and are ready for distribution. This is the first print run of this book. In the fall or winter a second run will be made for local distribution and mail order. The second run will feature a slightly different variation in colour schema due to as all the inks for the first run were mixed on the spot.

Books were given as gifts and sold to a select few special people in New York, Montreal and Toronto.

Apple Pie Face

2010-05-19T13:27:00.000-07:00

A month of drawings are burned to screens and printed on fancy paper. Daniel is crossing Europe this summer and I am meandering around out east. This provides us with an opportunity to get some of our work printed and out to friends and curious acquaintances that we meet in our travels.

This image of Daniel pulling prints was made at about 1 in the morning. This particular day of printing ran approximately 18 hours.

Danathan Jonesamasso Studios

2010-05-04T02:24:00.000-07:00

Pictures of the new studio space at Blim, which Daniel and I share, with special cameo by Morgan. Over the past year Daniel and I have made somwhere between 80 and 100 collaborative drawings.

More information will be added to this post shortly.

New Directions

2010-05-04T02:12:00.000-07:00

This is a new series I've been working on involving portraiture and colour, two things that have been vacant from my paintings for the past few years. The series was started last October and the first few paintings are finally starting to see completion.

2010-04-09T09:23:00.000-07:00

Haven Lost 2006 - 2010. Nathan Jones, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2010

This work was started in the summer of 2006 but left unfinished. I thought I lost the file but recently came across it while searching my backup disks for a copy of some old editing software. The work is an early experiment, a ruff sketch. At the time I was interested in how colour and light effect our perception of space and how the metamorphosis of colour in work such as this creates a narrative. As a painter (or picture maker), when I view films or videos I am often fascinated and excited by the idea that every frame that has passed in front of my eyes was a separate composition. I plan on doing more work in this vein.

Special Thanks: Mathew Anderson, Ian Prentice Daniel Giantomaso and David Rimmer.

5 x 7 Series

2010-03-23T14:12:00.000-07:00

A sample of new work for upcoming exhibition"Keys for Dark-Matter and Future Lost Civilizations". (change of plan: work sent to Montreal for "Drawing Expo 2010")

2010-03-15T15:16:00.001-07:00

Collaboration without Consent

2010-03-03T18:47:00.000-08:00

"Please join the ongoing window display and group show at our new location! We’ve built several 20″H × 30″W × 23″D and are looking for folks to fill them with their collections of figurines, tinfoil, whatever! Be them odd & bizarre or banal & everyday, we welcome what you’ve been secretly keeping to yourself.

“Storage” will be on display from March 1 – May 1 at the new Blim location: 115 E. Pender (West of Main St). Move in dates begin this week. Closing party will be held on May 1." http://blim.ca/submission/

Detail shots of sculptural installation for Blim's "Collections" show.

"All materials for this piece, including the drawn aspects were left in my apartment by my friend Dan. He said I could throw them out but instead I used them in this sculpture. With the exception of a few colours even the paint was at one time his. The piece is intended to be viewed from the front, reading in a similar way to a painting."

Semiconductor for Dark-Matter

2010-02-26T14:31:00.000-08:00

This work was donated for the upcoming "Galliere Rye" opening auction.

"One night silent auction featuring original works by such artists as Tamera Alvarez, Robert Clifton, Cynthia Copper Benjamin, Gabriel Deerman, Colin Muir Dorward, Nathan Jones and more."

http://www.galerierye.com/www.galerierye.com/Calendar.html

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Semiconductor for Dark-Matter
Acrylic on Mylar
15.5" x 23.5"

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Detail of text that appears outside the image area on the upper right corner.

2009-11-19T14:37:00.001-08:00

New work is on it's way.

- 19 paintings in various stages of production
- 1 digital video
- 1 audio cd
- a sketchbook full of ruffs
- 3 proposal drafts for specific galleries

Nuclear Winter

2009-06-13T14:21:00.000-07:00

These are some of the smaller works that were exhibited as a part of Nuclear Winter.
They are all 8.5 x 11 acrylic and ink on Mylar.

Plastic Structures in Winter

2008-08-17T14:55:00.000-07:00

Plastic Structures in Winter : Further Exploration into Synthetic Space.

Nathan's work explores the mediation that occurs between painting and drawing processes, while addressing the illusory and physical aspects of the media. Paintings and drawings are often started in an Automatist fashion, by haphazardly splashing ink and paint across the surface of the work or by making marks that relate to the format of the piece and are dictated by physical reach, the circumference of wrist, elbow and arm pivots. Nathan avoids using colour in this work as he finds it implies unwanted specific meaning that over-complicates the work and is potentially misleading. The forms and spaces depicted in these pictures are ambiguous and transitory, built upon subconscious baggage and aesthetic bias.

A selection of this work as well as several drawings will be shown in 2009 at Little Mountain Studios under the title Nuclear Winter opening January 30th.

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