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Dec 18, 2021 · Jonathan Gardner. Human silhouettes, commonplace objects, geometric patterns, and architectural elements — these constitute some of the most immediately recognizable traits of Jonathan Gardner’s figurative painting. Born in 1982, Gardner lives and works in New York.
Jonathan Gardner Biography. Jonathan Gardner's highly stylised paintings of nonchalant figures set against surrealist backdrops reinvent the painterly compositions of 20 th -century masters. Read More. Early Years.
From canonical art to neoclassicism, Surrealism and Pop Art, Gardner can refer from Ingres and Magritte, to Fernand Léger, Lindner and Currin. Yet his work develops his own logic – far from postmodernism recycling, Gardner is the kind of painter who re-uses and re-interpretes in different paintings the main elements of his masterminds.
Nov 20, 2021 · Pictures and details of Jonathan Gardner: Living Image at Almine Rech, Turenne, Paris, November 20 – December 18, 2021 – Contemporary art with installation views.
Feb 21, 2020 · Artist Jonathan Gardner has always been a sketcher. Today, these sketches are essential to his vast paintings in which the female nude looms large, and which—according to reviews—reference Picasso’s “bodily geometrics” and works by Matisse and Magritte.
Dec 18, 2021 · Almine Rech Paris is pleased to present Jonathan Gardner's first solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from November 20 to December 18, 2021. Forming a homogeneous whole in both subject and style, Jonathan Gardner presents ten new paintings at Almine Rech in Paris.
What exactly is Gardner’s point, other than a bit of standard copying and aura stripping? The paintings certainly seem devoid of the critical potential of classic appropriation art.
