Jon Flaming: Recent Works

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

november 10 - december 2, 2017

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

ON VIEW: november 10 - december 2, 2017 OPENING RECEPTION: saturday, november 11, 6:00-8:30pm

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JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

From November 10 to December 2, William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art will exhibit Jon Flaming Recent Works, featuring paintings created over the past year. The exhibition includes works from his West Texas Landscape Series focus on landscapes and rural areas of West Texas and the greater Southwest, including scenes of New Mexico and Colorado.

Additionally, several works will be on view from Flaming’s Big, Bold Texas Series, which are striking red and black compositions of iconic Texas imagery, such as The Lone Rider, West Texas Jack Rabbit and Bison.

Flaming is a multi-disciplined artist who is a designer, illustrator, and painter, working in a number of media, including watercolor, acrylic, oil and found materials. In his paintings, Flaming’s works clearly reflect the idiom of Texas regionalism and he has been classified as one of the state’s foremost neo-regionalist painters. Flaming is a great young artist whose abstracted representations of the Texas scene are colorful and painterly.

Flaming has tapped into an earlier regionalist sentiment and technique, evidenced by his iconic Texas subject matter. His choice of subject matter is engaging, his compositions are elegant; and his regionalist style is reminiscent of the best from a bygone era. His paintings

bring warm recollections of earlier, simpler roots, while simultaneously magnifying awareness of social change and transformation underway in the state of Texas.

Utilizing classic regionalist style as he documents rural Texas subjects, Flaming’s composition and subject matter bear comparison to those of the greatest of Texas regionalists including Everett Spruce, William Lester, Florence McClung or Alexandre Hogue. Like the regionalists working before him, Flaming still sees farmers, ranch hands and tool pushers as subjects worthy of fine art. His pulse is attuned to meandering scenic back roads and his eye records the character and dignity of old farms strewn along the way. His paintings tell a Texas story.

-William Reaves & Sarah Foltz, Reaves | Foltz Fine Art

No.

Artist

Title of Work

Date

Medium

Size (inches)

Recent Works 1

Jon Flaming

Abandoned House, Big Bend, Texas

2017

oil on canvas

20x24

2

Jon Flaming

Big Bend Landscape, Number 2

2017

oil on canvas

20x24

3

Jon Flaming

Big Bend Landscape, Number 1

2017

oil on canvas

18x24

4

Jon Flaming

Big Bend Landscpae, Number 3

2017

oil on canvas

20x24

5

Jon Flaming

Big Bend Landscape, Number 4

2017

oil on canvas

22x28

6

Jon Flaming

Church, Big Bend, Texas

2017

oil on canvas

20x24

7

Jon Flaming

Bison

2017

etched acrylic on canvas

60x48

8

Jon Flaming

Lone Rider

2017

etched acrylic on canvas

48x60

9

Jon Flaming

West Texas Jack Rabbit

2017

etched acrylic on canvas

60x48

10

Jon Flaming

Church, Golden, New Mexico

2017

oil on canvas

22x28

11

Jon Flaming

New Mexico Landscape

2017

oil on canvas

12x16

12

Jon Flaming

Colorado Scene

2017

oil on canvas

12x16

13

Jon Flaming

San Francisco de Asis Mission Church, Taos, NM

2017

oil on canvas

20x24

14

Jon Flaming

Terlingua TeePee

2017

oil on canvas

20x24

15

Jon Flaming

New Mexico Landscape

2017

oil on canvas

16x20

16

Jon Flaming

Trailer Big Bend, Texas

2017

oil on canvas

20x24

17

Jon Flaming

Hi-Way Cafe, Valentine, Texas

2017

oil on canvas

36x48

RECENT WORKS JON FLAMING

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

1. Abandoned House, Big Bend, Texas, 2017, oil on canvas, 20x24 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

2. Big Bend Landscape Number 2, 2017, oil on canvas, 20x24 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

3. Big Bend Landscape, Number 1, 2017, oil on canvas, 18x24 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

4. Big Bend Landscape, Number 3, 2017, oil on canvas, 20x24 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

5. Big Bend Landscape, Number 4, 2017, oil on canvas, 22x28 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

6. Church, Big Bend, Texas, 2017, oil on canvas, 20x24 inches..

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

7. Bison, 2017, etched acrylic on canvas, 60x48 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

8. Lone Rider, 2017, etched acrylic on canvas, 48x60 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

9. West Texas jack Rabbit, 2017, etched acrylic on canvas, 60x48 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

10. Church, Golden, New Mexico, 2017, oil on canvas, 22x28 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

11. New Mexico Landscape, 2017, oil on canvas, 12x16 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

12. Colorado Scene, 2017, oil on canvas, 12x16 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

13. San Francisco de Asis Mission Church, Taos, New Mexico, 2017, oil on canvas, 20x24 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

14. Terlingua TeePee, 2017, oil on canvas, 20x24 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

15. New Mexico Landscape, 2017, oil on canvas, 16x20 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

16. Trailer Big Bend, Texas, 2017, oil on canvas, 20x24 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

17. Hi-Way Cafe, Valentine, Texas, 2017, oil on canvas, 36x48 inches.

JON FLAMING RECENT WORKS

JON FLAMING

Jon Flaming was born in 1962 in Wichita, Kansas Interested in art from a young age, he grew into a self taught artist working in a variety of media including watercolor, acrylic, oil and found materials. Flaming has tapped into a ne earlier regionalist sentiment and technique, evidenced by his iconic Texas subject matter. His paintings bring warm recollections of earlier, simpler roots, while simultaneously magnifying awareness of social change and transformation underway in the state of Texas. Flaming’s works clearly reflect the idiom of Texas regionalism and he has been classified as one of the state’s foremost neo-regionalist painters. His art is doen by a Texan for Texans, yet is still rich with universal narrative and appeal. Flaming started Jon Flaming Design in 1993 and has created award winning design campaigns and illustrations for a number of clients including Neiman Marcus, Milton Bradley, JC Penney, Pizza Hut, FedEx, Hewlett Packard and Pepsi.

SELECTED BIOGRAPHICAL AND CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

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1962, Born in Wichita, Kansas 1968, Family moves to Texas 1985, B.F.A. from Texas State University 1993, Started Jon Flaming Design Serves AIGA Board of Directors Currently resides in Richardson, Texas

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

2017 Jon Flaming - Recent Work, a 2 person exhibit at William Reaves Fine Art in Houston 2016 "Meat - A Visual Narrative of BBQ Joints, Steakhouses & Burger Stands” - Solo exhibit at David Dike Fine Art 2014 "Oil on Canvas" show - Solo exhibit at David Dike Fine Art 2014 Contemporary Texas Regionalists show, Turner House, Oak Cliff, Texas 2014 The Texas Aesthetic VII: Lone Star Heritage in Contemporary Texas Painting - William Reaves Fine Art 2014 John Wayne Film Festival, Dallas, Texas (created art & branding for festival) 2014 Artistic Impressions of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas 2013 Restless Hearts Exhibit - San Angelo Museum of Fine Art 2013 Contemporary Western Art Exhibit - Stephen F. Austin University Show - Nacogdoches, Texas 2013 Panhandle Plains Historical Museum Invitational - Canyon, Texas 2013 Birdston Valley Revival - Solo Exhibit - David Dike Fine Art 2013 Hill Country Love Affair: Interpretations of the Texas Heartland - William Reaves Fine Art T 2013 The Texas Aesthetic VI: Lone Star Heritage in Contemporary Texas Painting - William Reaves Fine Art 2012 William Reaves Fine Art, Houston (group show – Texas Aesthetic) William Reaves Fine Art, Houston (group show - West Texas) 2011 Texas Stampede – Group show, Insight Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas William Reaves Fine Art, Houston (group show – Texas Aesthetic) 2010 William Reaves Fine Art – Solo exhibit (Roads Less Traveled – Jon Flaming’s Texas)

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2010 William Reaves Fine Art, Houston (group show – Texas Aesthetic) 2010 Grace Museum – Bobbie & John Nau collection of Texas Art (Drawing on the Past) 2010 Cole Art Center – Nac Collect show 2009 William Reaves Fine Art – Houston (group show) 2009 A Texas Sampler – William Reaves Fine Art, Houston (group show) Work featured on KERA public radio 2008 Cherry Spring Festival - (group show) 2008 David Dike Fine Art – (group show) 2008 William Reaves Fine Art – Houston (group show) 2008 Panhandle Plains Historical Museum Invitational 2008 “The Business of Art”– (group show) 2008 “Art in the Metroplex”– (juried show TCU) 2007 Cherry Spring Festival (group show) 2007 David Dike Fine Art – (group show) 2007 “Then and Now” show – Texas State University 2006 Panhandle Plains Historical Museum Invitational 2006 David Dike Fine Art – (group show) September 2006 David Dike Fine Art – (group show) February 2006 Blue Star Gallery, Hico, Texas – (solo) 2005 2005 David Dike Fine Art – (solo) 2005 McKinney Avenue Contemporary - show entitled “Natural Disasters” 2004 Plano National Juried Show 2003 2004 David Dike Fine Art – (solo) 2001 David Dike Fine Art – (solo) 1999 David Dike Fine Art – (solo)

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H OUSTON’S T EXAS- C ENTERED G ALLERY William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art, originally established in 2006 in Houston, Texas, is dedicated to the promotion of

premier Texas artists of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing particularly on historically significant artists active in the state during the period of 1900‒1975.

The gallery showcases many of the state’s most accomplished and recognized talents, all of whom have significant

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of midcentury works by Houston and South Texas artists. William Reaves | Sarah Foltz Fine Art is the foremost provider of

Texas Modern Art, which includes midcentury masters and pioneering expressionists working in the state. The gallery also

represents a dynamic group of contemporary artists, known as the Contemporary Texas Regionalists, actively showing their works in annual gallery exhibitions as well as traveling exhibitions throughout the state.

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