Art
The Man in the Violet Dreamscape With Red Flowers
by Jon Key
- Year
- 2022
- Medium
- 8 color silkscreen on Coventry rag vellum 290 gsm
- Edition
- of 75
- Size
- 17.5" x 24"
- Location
- The Battery
About Jon Key
Jon Key’s paintings feature his own likeness as a contorted black man in a variety of poses against green, black, violet and red backgrounds. The colors render the figure flamboyant and provocative while the tight framing stifles his freedom. Key limits his palette to these four colors to acknowledge his Southern roots, his Blackness, his Queerness and his family. In other recent works, he has introduced other members of his family including his twin brother, parents and grandparents. Jon Key (born 1990, Seale, Alabama) earned a BFA at Rhode Island School of Design (2013) before moving to Brooklyn where he began developing his studio and design practices. He has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate (2022); Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023, New York); Rubber Factory, New York (2019) and The Armory Show, New York (2020).