Ric Jones

Exhibited at Lycoming Arts Gallery June 2024

Since my art school days, I have done a lot of graphic design and art direction for clients across the country, as well as a lot of sketching of prototypes for complex technology systems. I have more time now to pursue my fine art interests.

I am still drawn toward the immediate and generative nature of photography. I combine that with my love of serigraphy to create the collages in this gallery. I print these on quality watercolor paper using inkjet technology, so that all evidence of the printing dots bleed together, producing a silkscreen-like final output.

My work tends to take images I find interesting and juxtapose them in non-representational ways, drawing on meanings or symbols from historical roots, or presenting images where the elements are representational but visually dissonant.

I have also always been interested in found object art. One of my art teachers did a lot of sculpture using found objects. Some of my work uses “digital found objects” — 3D models of objects rummaged from industrial 3D model sites, but in the end, photographs are “found” objects for me as well.