Zebedee Jones (born 12 March 1970) is a British abstract painter.

Life and work

Zebedee Jones was born in

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. He attended

Camberwell College of Arts Camberwell College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, a public art and design university in London, England. The college offers further and higher education programmes, including postgraduate and PhD awards. ...

Norwich University of the Arts The Norwich University of the Arts (NUA) is a public university in Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom that specialises in art, design, media, architecture and performance. It was founded as Norwich School of Design in 1845 and has a long history ...

and Chelsea School of Art and Design graduating in 1993. The following year Jones's paintings appeared in ''Unbound: possibilities in painting'' at the

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. His work is in several public collections including

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and the

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Collection. Jones's work consists of monochrome abstracts, which have been described as adjacent to

Neo-conceptual art Neo-conceptual art describes art practices in the 1980s and 1990s that emerged out of the conceptual art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. These subsequent initiatives included the Moscow Conceptualists, the United States Neo-Conceptual artists, s ...

or belonging to the

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tradition. However, above Jones is called one of a generation of artists who spearheaded a move away from conceptual, installation and video art in favour of a ‘return to painting’. His canvases are stretched over deep frames. The paint appears scraped on in layers, usually horizontal. The dragged surface of the canvas rather than being smooth has varying degrees of surface incident. Zebedee Jones lives and works in

Collection

Jones' work is held in the following public collection: *Tate Gallery, London

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, NL, 2013 *Agnew’s Gallery, London, UK, 2011 *Mummery + Schnelle, London, UK, 2008 *Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, NL, 2007 *Danese, New York, NY, 2005 *Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, NL, 2004 *New Arts Centre, Salisbury, UK, 2003 *Danese, New York, NY, 2002 *Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, NL, 2001 *Danese, New York, NY, 1999 *Waddington Galleries, London (cat.), 1998 *Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, IR, 1998 *Patrick de Brock, Knokke, BE, 1997 *Waddington Galleries, London, UK, 1997 *Karsten Schubert, London, UK, 1995

Selected group exhibitions

*Group Exhibition, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, NL, 2007 *10 Years Slewe, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (cat.), 2004 *Galerie Lelong, Zurich, SW, 2003 *Group Show, Pippy Houldsworth, London, UK, 2002 *Visione Britannica III, Valentina Moncada, Rome, IT, 1999 *Passion, Gasworks, London, UK *Elegant Austerity, Waddington Galleries, London, UK, 1998 *Foundations for Fame, The London Institute Gallery, London, UK, 1997 *Ace! Arts Council Collection new Purchases, touring exhibition to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle / Hayward Gallery, London / Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK *Mostly Monochrome, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, IR, 1996 *Real Art, Southampton City Art Gallery / Leeds City Art Gallery / Stedelijk Museum, Aalst, BE (cat.), 1996

References

External links

''Robert-Jan Muller, Zebedee Jones at Slewe Gallery, June 2013''
* ttps://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/19/arts/art-in-review-zebedee-jones.html/ ''Grace Glueck, ART IN REVIEW; Zebedee Jones, The New York Times, Nov 19, 1999'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Zebedee 20th-century English painters English male painters 21st-century English painters 1970 births Living people English contemporary artists Painters from London Alumni of Camberwell College of Arts Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts Alumni of Norwich University of the Arts 20th-century English male artists 21st-century English male artists