From Deep Space

A full length 84 page comic written by Johnstone Metzger and Illustrated by Nathan Jones.

 "Here are intellectual bodies made of vapour, free to roam the astral spheres at will, to conceptualize the subjects of our studies as hypothetically perfect constructs of pure thought, unfettered by clumsy flesh and blood."

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There will be a small release party at The Couch Gallery, located in the Dynamo Arts Assoceation Studios on 30est 6th in Vancouver, on Saturday November 9th form 4pm to 6pm. 

Original art will be on display, as well as copies of the book available for purchase, in addition to previous titles by it's authors.  

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Idiotville: Beauty Tips

Copies of "Idiotville: Beauty Tips" are now floating through the Netherspheare. Grab one while there hot! Featuring the drawings of Awesome Doug Wideen, Justin Gradin, Nathan Jones, Kuh Del Rosario and an unexpected surprise appearance by Mike Bourscheid! 

Canzine 2013

Saturday, November 2 Ukrainian Hall 805 Pender St. E 1-7pm -
See more at: http://www.brokenpencil.com/canzine-vancouver#sthash.KnNiBPwT.dpuf

I'll be at Canzine this year with some new goodies!

Drawing Expo. 13

Exhibition Date: Opening July 5th Closing July 25
Drop-in Viewing Hours: 11AM - 4PM Saturdays

After a brief hiatus, Drawing Expo is reemerging for its 4th exhibition. The exhibition will host a carefully selected group of artists and will be held at the new Dynamo Arts Association Project Space in Vancouver, BC. As Drawing Expo's Curator and founder, Gabriel Deerman is currently living and working in Doha, Qatar. This year's Drawing Expo will be coordinated and curated by Ehren Salazar and Nathan Jones. Ehren Salazar will also be generating a body of work specifically for this exhibition. Gabriel Deerman will have work on display, in addition to taking the roll of satellite curatorial adviser.


http://drawingexpo13.blogspot.ca/

Text, Type, and Sound

Working with word balloons made me miss working with text. Now not only now do I have a small collection of word balloon drawings, but in addition, a collection of text pieces. I'm uncertain if these pieces would be classified as concrete poetry or sound poems. Dadaist sensibilities towards poetry and typography, over perhaps what conventionally be considered more scholarly aspects of poetry have always held my favor. A good portion of the inspiration for these works also comes from faint memories of some animated Dadaist poetry I saw as a child.  In the next few weeks I should be able to find the time to put at least one of these series into a small book.

Recurring Theme (Word Balloons)

For the past few weeks "word balloons" have become a theme in my work. This is possibly an attempt towards furthering the embrace of comics as a presence within my art practice.

Studio Space Update

Last September I relocated my studio into the new Dynamo Arts Association building. Here I have been continuing work on a series of portrait paintings exploiting different aspects found within the "language of painting". The portraits are not renderings of anyone spisific, but rather an exploration of how personality can be devised through dialogues generated by the relationships of simple shapes and patterns as well as an acute attention to process. 

Apple Pie Face Complete

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

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

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

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.

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.