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Chuck Jones, PhD

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Introduction

Chuck Jones, PhD, is a Knoxville, Tennessee, USA-based, primarily self-trained acrylic-on-paper artist with a long adjacent career in Clinical Psychology. In recent years, he has had more than 50 pieces in national and international exhibits.

Briefly, here’s what I’m up to: Some French friends, Francoise Davoine and the late Jean-Max Gaudilliere, wrote a harrowing but profound book titled, History Beyond Trauma, offering this subtitle: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one cannot stay silent,” they said.

It’s a play on the idea there is much outside our internal awareness driving our lives; some of it incessantly shaping our path despite being consciously unknown; something that insists on being recognized despite our desire to ignore and even disown it.

In keeping with their wisdom, I paint from a foundational question, asking the deeper quiet space with, “What wants to be said.” Or similarly but slightly differently stated, “What wants to reveal itself?” I’m looking for the internal felt sense that’s trying to find its way to the surface - in words or in paint. It’s a powerful orienting tool, challenging to wield but meaningful to explore.

Over time, I’ll explain more in the Studio-Notes section, linked above. Check in periodically, if you’re interested.

 

REPRESENTED BY:

  • Galerie Azure, Berlin, Germany

  • Rossocinabro Gallery, Rome, Italy

  • Monat Gallery, Madrid, Spain

  • Art Show International Gallery

A FEW 2022 HIGHLIGHTS

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2022 NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2021 – Painted but suspended applications to exhibits

·      This decision was made with a change in priorities to focusing on a start-up project developing a safe, very effective, anti-viral SARS-Cov-2 mitigation to clean the near air between people congregating in groups.

2020 NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2019 NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITIONS

  • 13th Arts & Culture Alliance Show at the Emporium in Knoxville, TN – Islands of Yellow

  • Loss, Redemption, and Grace exhibit at EBD4 in Atlanta – The Emptiness It Leaves

  • 2019 Primary Colors Art Exhibition – 4th place, Painting; 6th Overall – Underscoring the Primary Conflict and Special Merit Award – Reaching Beyond Your Horizons

  • Fusion Art: Line, Shapes, and Objects – July 2019 – Honorable Mention  – Euclid’s Bird­ –  plus two other pieces accepted ­ – Islands of Yellow and Charleston Afternoon.2020 NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITIONS