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http://elisabethcondon.blogspot.com/2013/04/basquiat-using-similar-opaque-covering.html
Elisabeth Condon photo blogs visits to recent and current painting shows in Chelsea including two shows at Gagosian, Jean-Michel Basquiat (through April 6) and Helen Frankenthaler (through April 13), Painting Advanced at Edward Thorp (through April 20), Al Held at Cheim and Read (through April 20), Susanna Heller at Magnan Metz (through April 20), Barkley Hendricks at Jack Shainman (through April 6), and several images of paintings by Mary Jones recently on view in her studio exhibition.
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http://ffffffwalls.com/2012/11/mary-jones-chelsea/
Jonathan Chapline and Lorraine Nam visit the Chelsea studio of painter Mary Jones.
Jones comments that in her paintings "there’s an implied figure and its usually sort of a very ancient prehistoric Greek Cycladic reference. I wanted to reference something prehistoric and from the beginning of human history to sort of connect with that primal part of art making. I think in terms of gestural painting, it roots them in another kind of impulse-the desire to find form in something and find form in chaos and to make it in this case, pretty literal."
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http://maxestenger.blogspot.com/2012/05/in-studio-with-mary-jones.html
Max Estenger visits the studio of painter Mary Jones.
Estenger writes that Jones' recent painting "are her most muscular paintings with form and mass dominating where once thin washes of paint predominated. Her introduction a few years ago of spray paint is now incorporated seamlessly and some of the schematic ghosts from her earliest work have reappeared. Despite the fact that these paintings contain more traditional figure/ground relationships, color continues to play an important role. The newest paintings have large swaths of paint applied with a roller, but not so much rolled as troweled."
