Suzanne Connors Fine Art Gallery Presents Jonas Gerard
By: Christina Mancuso Feb. 19, 2014
Asheville, NC artist Jonas Gerard was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1941 of French and Brazilian ancestry. He migrated to New York City at age thirteen and has lived the life of an artist since the age of sixteen, when he began his early participation in art shows on the very streets of New York. Living in Greenwich Village in the '60's, Jonas was part of that era of personal and creative experimentation. Since then, he has been "blessed or cursed" with a need to express the constant non-stop flow of creative energy that has become the focus of his life.
This inner push to make art has taken him through a series of stylistic periods: figurative, narrative, representational, abstract, and three-dimensional. Although well know for his canvas works, the latter is reflected in his wall sculptures of bent wood, mixed-media assemblages and freestanding outdoor sculptures. Being basically self-taught, he is continually searching for a more authentic and honest expression; he compares it to fine-tuning a new language so that communication exists without static, fuzz, or interference. Through the flow of forms, contours, colors and pattern in his constructions, he seeks to create a harmonious relationship between totally different elements. Consequently, an emotional atmosphere radiates from his work that draws the viewer into the piece. That wave of energy manifested by the artist through his work eludes adequate definition, but is there in the composition to be tapped into at any time.- William Zimmer, New York Times, NYC
Telephone: 561-841-6779
Email: suzconnorsfineart@gmail.com
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