Joseph_Jones
For TAR Presents, the gallery’s ongoing sequence of individual artist projects, The Artist Room are a showing body of recent paintings by Joseph Jones (b.1985). On view are intimately scaled paintings depicting cats and flowers that are assimilated from the artist’s vast archive of found imagery, in addition to his own drawings and photography.
Immaculately painted with oil on heavy linen, their surface is carefully primed so that the subjects appear with deep sheen and lustre. Much like images produced with film photography – that are beholden to the sensitivity of light and glitches in production – despite their realism, his paintings carry a haze which recalls family photos or archive footage.