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Artist BioJava Jones (b. Selma, AL) is an anti-disciplinary artist working between the cloud and environmentally sustainable approaches.
e: javajonesstudio@gmail.com
That Nameless Color (TWBLWD series), 2020
Thermo-formed plastic
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That Nameless Color, 2020
(detail)
Untitled (With Force) [TWBLWD series], 2019
Thermo-formed plastic
48 x 53 x 28"
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Untitled (With Force), 2019
(detail)
From A to B (TWBLWD series), 2019
Thermo-formed plastic
32 x 60 x 8"
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From A to B, 2019
(detail)
bb_boi_hall_of_fame (_scripting_ series), 2019
Digital painting
Dimensions variable
shuga (_scripting_series), 2020
Digital painting
Dimensions variable
Dats Real Cute, 2019
UV print on kanekalon braiding hair, bobby pins
styling gel
14 x 21"
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Artist Statement
My practice transcribes daily experiences through abstraction as an act of feeling and imagining innerwise. ‘Inner-’ here refers to non-reductive spaces. TWBLWD (2019) and _scripting_ (2019-) operate as spillways to this innerness, in which I respond to quietude as refutation; images that can’t be captured; the agency of recycled objects and personal ephemera; and nigga riggin’ as survival.
From A to B (2019), a tapestry of recycled bodega bags, considers the resourceful approaches to survival that I observed at home in Marion and Selma, Alabama, as well as how I think about creating within a fine arts canon largely sustained by collectability and reduction.
In the series _scripting_, photographs are rooted in a digital multiverse from the cloud. Under the guise of manipulated pixels, photography and digital painting collapse to enter the language of avatar as a discursive formation of personhood.
Other works, such as Dats Real Cute (2019), act as “quiet images,” or transmitters of low sonic frequencies that encourage haptic experiences instead of a reliance on the visual. To this end, resolution becomes a material that opposes the cursory glance, waging a polarizing fight for and against the attention of whomever engages the work.