Jeff Jones

Jeff Jones (b. 1976) is a Portland-based painter whose work explores the confluence of traditional landscape painting, contemporary visual culture and post-industrial concepts related to the natural world. His paintings feature idealized landscapes rendered through bold, vibrant colors and flat graphic treatment, embedded within gritty industrial surface textures. This formal approach creates a visual dialogue between commercial aesthetics and material processes, examining how nature is represented, commodified, and experienced in contemporary culture.

Jones holds an MFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is the recipient of a 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting. His work has been exhibited at the Krannert Art Museum, Champaign; Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg; I Space, Chicago; Kinz, Tillou and Feigen Gallery, New York; George Adams Gallery, New York; and the Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, among others. His work is held in several private collections in the United States and Europe.