About Me

Chuck Jones,PhD

Chuck Jones, PhD, is a Knoxville, Tennessee, USA-based, primarily self-trained acrylic-on-paper artist with a long adjacent career in Clinical Psychology. In recent years, he has had more than 50 pieces in national and international exhibits.

INSPIRATION

Briefly, here’s what I’m up to: Some French friends, Francoise Davoine and the late Jean-Max Gaudilliere, wrote a harrowing but profound book titled, History Beyond Trauma, offering this subtitle: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one cannot stay silent,” they said.

It’s a play on the idea there is much outside our internal awareness driving our lives; some of it incessantly shaping our path despite being consciously unknown; something that insists on being recognized despite our desire to ignore and even disown it.

In keeping with their wisdom, I paint from a foundational question, asking the deeper quiet space with, “What wants to be said.” Or similarly but slightly differently stated, “What wants to reveal itself?” I’m looking for the internal felt sense that’s trying to find its way to the surface - in words or in paint. It’s a powerful orienting tool, challenging to wield but meaningful to explore.

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career highlights

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2022 NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITIONS

Martin Luther King Commemorative Exhibit - The Emporium, Knoxville, TN - January, 2022. Playing Life in the Key of Race.

Black and White: Fusion Arts International Exhibit - February, 2022 Our Yin - Our Yang - Our Social Complexity https://www.fusionartps.com/6th-annual-black-white-art-exhibition-february-2022/#gallery/d5fd0c5513e9822f029d8e87dc246d94/11579
Hint of a Winter Morning https://www.fusionartps.com/6th-annual-black-white-art-exhibition-february-2022/#gallery/d5fd0c5513e9822f029d8e87dc246d94/11579

Shades of Green: Camelback International Juried Exhibit - April, 2022 - Gold Award of Excellence, Three Crows https://www.camelbackgallery.com/shadesofgreen2022exhibition?pgid=l1nvul3r-3318bf56-9adc-4f9c-a80d-9885699c56b4

Yellow: Art Room Online Contemporary Gallery - April, 2022 - Honorable Mention, Red Elegance and A Rift Runs Through It https://www.artroomgalleryonline.com/exhibitions/2022/april_2022.html

Gray Cube Gallery Black and White International Exhibit - April, 2022 - Honorable Mention - 3 pieces, Shades of Night and Day, Transitions, All A Swirl https://greycubegallery.com/

The Holy Art Gallery - London, England - Oppositions Exhibit - April-May, 2022 - 3 pieces, Drawing the Distinction that Creates Opposition, Transitions, Yin and Yang. https://www.theholyart.com/oppositions-room-iv

Camelback 2022 Moment-in-Time Photography Competition - June 2022 - Bronze - Jellyfish in Blue. https://www.camelbackgallery.com/amomentintime2022exhibition?pgid=l4bsg7o11-30d9031e-666d-4f77-a591-6fe219f964f1&utm_campaign=c3a78df8-2f8f-4abc-903e-23671b50434b&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=1cec5dd4-e941-48e1-81d4-71d7b8e8d29e

Art Show International Solo Exhibition - June 2022 - 10 paintings - https://www.artshowinternational.com/artists/chuck-jones

10th Annual All Landscape International Exhibition - Contemporary Gallery Online - June 2022 - 5 paintings including: Silhouette Against the Green and The Last Tree https://www.contemporaryartgalleryonline.gallery/2022-cago-art-competitions-exhibition

ITSLIQUID - CONTEMPORARY VENICE 10th Edition - July 2022 - Suggestion of a Field - Venice, Italy

Jen Tough Gallery Artist Collective - July 2022 - Representation at ArtExpo-Dallas, Red Dot - Miami, and online venues to be announced.

Artavita - Spectrum - Red Dot Miami Contest - July 2022 - Finalist

Art Room Gallery - Gray Art Exhibit - July 2022 - Grey Triangulations and Suggestions of Rain. Honorable Mention.

2021 – Painted but suspended applications to exhibits

This decision was made with a change in priorities to focusing on a start-up project developing a safe, very effective, anti-viral SARS-Cov-2 mitigation to clean the near air between people congregating in groups.

2020 NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITIONS

Paint: Medium as Power in a Time of Crisis National Juried Exhibition – Barrett Art Center – About That Return to Normal – https://www.barrettartcenter.org/paint-artists-statements
Knoxville Photo 2020 National Exhibition at the Emporium Center: Three photos invited
Art in the Time of Corona™ - A Global Art Project: DAB ART – Distancing 101
The Black and White Show 2020 – Core New Art Space, Lakewood, CO – Jung's Butterfly - https://youtu.be/ANWjAE8dHS0
Unleashed – 2020 – Gallery Underground – Arlington, VA – Breaking Free. https://www.facebook.com/GalleryUnderground/videos/219423439387204/
The Art List – Artist of the Month - 2nd Place – Arboreal Ambiguity
National Fine Art Show - Lincoln Gallery, Loveland, Colorado – Disappointment
All Abstract 2020 Exhibition - Finalist. Camelback Gallery - Dancing in the Silver Dawn While Casting a White Shadow https://www.camelbackgallery.com/allabstracts2020exhibition
Wild Things - Artist Alliance - Curated by Gina Tuzzi | www.ginatuzzi.com The Last Tree -https://artistalliance.space/exhibitions/wild-lands
Arts in the Airport – McGhee-Tyson — Fall 2020 exhibition – Low Threshold
Into the Wild Painting and Photography - 2020 Award Exhibition - Let Sleeping Foxes Lie - Photograph - https://www.camelbackgallery.com/intothewild2020exhibition

2019 NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITIONS

13th Arts & Culture Alliance Show at the Emporium in Knoxville, TN – Islands of Yellow
Loss, Redemption, and Grace exhibit at EBD4 in Atlanta – The Emptiness It Leaves
2019 Primary Colors Art Exhibition – 4th place, Painting; 6th Overall – Underscoring the Primary Conflict and Special Merit Award – Reaching Beyond Your Horizons
Fusion Art: Line, Shapes, and Objects – July 2019 – Honorable Mention – Euclid’s Bird – plus two other pieces accepted – Islands of Yellow and Charleston Afternoon.

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