left: Pay Attention, 2009, mixed
media on paper, 72x72"
center: Bueto, 2009, ink on paper, 22x30"
right: Ornate Hawk Eagle, 2009, mixed media on paper, 80x72"
Austin artist Jules Buck Jones draws, with an acute confidence, graphic
fantastical images of hybridized animal forms.
Influenced by ecological and biological concerns, Jones creates imagery
of bizarre, fantastic happenings in nature, using the past,
present and future as backdrops, mythology, fact, and fiction as fodder,
and the animal kingdom as the vehicle.
Jules Buck Jones earned his Masters of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, VA in 2005 and an MFA in
Painting at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX in 2008. During
the summer of 2009 Jones was an artist in residence
at the Everglades National Park in Homestead, FL. His work has been exhibited
throughout Texas and his native Virginia.
in 2008 the Austin Museum of Art acquired a large drawing of Jones' for
their permanent collection.