JonMarc Edwards’ solo exhibition INTEGRATING MATTER features a selection of stunning, tactile and color-filled paintings.
Confined to the studio during the pandemic, Edwards, in his newest paintings, integrates up-cycled and repurposed materials found within his studio and immediate environment, some left over from prior artworks, using them in new, highly graphic, emotional and painterly color fields. There are palpable emotions evoked by the juxtaposition of his use of these diverging forms together. You are confronted with the evidence of his artistic evolution.
Impacted by the tumultuous years of 2020-21 and the isolation caused by the pandemic quarantine, the artwork in his exhibition Integrating Matter reflects the tone, sensibility and meditative resolve for his desire to connect, as well as an intense anticipation of the uncertain future.
This new body of work pivots from Edwards’ well-known “Compressed Textual Tableaus” and includes the multi-panel narration “Meditation Upon a Jam”, a work that expresses the underlying trauma, anger, and hope provoked by the seemingly incoherent daily perspectives over these past two years. Edwards believes that “We are living through a period of chaos and instability where experimentation and dialogue offers the possibility to overcome ignorance and worn preconceptions. “It’s my mission as an artist to challenge and inspire the viewers to create action and make their mark!”. JonMarc Edwards’ Integrating Matter invites the viewer to contemplate these very marks that we are making.
