Otis Jones

Suggestion et efficacité. Les peintures Otis Jones sont des choses profondes et méditatives. Ce qui paraît élémentaire, enfantin, réduit, tient du mystère et du non verbal. Dans les oeuvres du peintre texan, il y a indéniablement de la substance et du vide, de la surface quasi géographique, de la distance étudiée entre les gros points, de la distance qui chante mezzo voce une géométrie imaginative. Une forme de beauté rurale, sans doute. Otis Jones enjambe les stratégies des avant-gardes et les reliefs du quotidien.

Suggestion and effectiveness rolled into one. Otis Jones' paintings are profound and meditative in nature. What might seem elementary, childish or limited, is in truth mysterious and non-verbal. In the works of the Texan painter, there is undeniably both substance and nothingness, the surfaces are almost geographical as the carefully considered distance between the large dots stretches out, a distance that sings mezzo voce of an imaginative geometry. A form of rural beauty, no doubt. Otis Jones's work spans both the strategies of the avant- garde and the contours of the everyday world.