Friday, June 13 2025 through Friday, July 11, 2025

Opening Reception: 6-9 p.m. Friday, June 13

Curtis Jones is an artist and educator working in Norman, OK where he teaches Printmaking at the University of Oklahoma. He received his MFA  from the California College of the Arts in 2003 and his BFA from the University of Washington in 1994. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has work in several public collections, including the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis. He has lived happily in Norman since 2005 with his wife, Tammy, and their beloved cats.

My art has maintained a fairly steady course since the early 1990’s. My initial influences were psychedelia, punk rock, surrealism, and outsider art. These evolved alongside interests (and studies) in printmaking, paper craft, decoration, and pattern design. Throughout this evolution there has always been a desire to make work that belies and transcends the simplicity of the materials and techniques from which it is created.

I base my practice around repetition and try to exploit its overlapping relationships with ritual, meditation, obsession, psychosis, and modernity. I spend the majority of my studio time creating accumulations of unique visual material which I can then bring into the gallery to assemble. This allows me to maintain a practical base in printmaking while exploring elements of sculpture and installation.