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Jonathan Gardner Artworks. Jonathan Gardner's cartoon-like images of nude figures hark back to the geometricity of Pablo Picasso 's bodies, while his lucid colours and the spatial flatness of his compositions are an ode to the interiors of Henri Matisse. The figures in Gardner's invented scenes are engaged in recreational activities, while ...
Dec 18, 2021 · 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. His paintings are rendered with a surreal approach to form and perspective.
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. Going further than painting the everyday, Gardner paints leisure.
Jason Haam is pleased to present Jonathan Gardner: Horizon, the artist’s first introduction in Asia and solo exhibition with the gallery.The artist’s signature style of flattened pictorial space, hyper-stylized compositions, and depictions of dream-like worlds come together in familiar, yet imaginary scenes that are drawn from Gardner’s own personal experience and collective memory.
So Jonathan Gardner’s eight candy-coloured oil paintings, over half of which depict nude or semiclothed, blank-faced female ‘types’ or disembodied breasts and legs, might be, as the press release tells us, ‘representing a style of painting as opposed to representing a subject’, but it is nevertheless women’s bodies (not animals, men, food or landscape) that are both style and subject matter here.
His paintings develop a highly stylized work – on Jonathan Gardner’s canvases floats a wistful and comical atmosphere. The New York based artist tends indeed to paint richly colored cartoon-like positions, bringing the viewer into a colorful and tad irreverent universe of sense. Yet Gardner anchors his works into art history, mainly by ...
Feb 21, 2020 · February 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. From his New York City studio he shares how he comes to his ...
