Marcia Jones (artist)

Marcia Jones

Artist Marcia Jones
Born 1972
Chicago, Illinois
Nationality American
Alma mater University of North Carolina Greensboro and Clark Atlanta University

Marcia Jones (born circa 1972, Chicago IL) is a professor and contemporary artist, known for her multimedia and large-scale installation works.[1]

Early life and education

Jones was born premature at Chicago’s Little Company of Mary Hospital to Paul Davis and Christine Jones. After moving many times with her mother, she spent her high school years in Los Angeles, CA at Marshall High School. Jones majored in Fashion Design at Clark Atlanta University and moved to New York in 1995 after being inspired by artists like Radcliffe Bailey to pursue fine art. She studied under Juan Logan, Kojo Griffin, Susan Page and Cora Cohen at UNC Greensboro to earn her MFA in visual arts in 2004.[1]

Personal life

Jones met poet Saul Williams after moving to New York and in 1996 birthed their daughter, Saturn River Renge, after sixty-hour labor.[1][2] In 2004, three days after earning her MFA, Jones was hospitalized and diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.[1][3]

Career

Jones moved to New York in 1995 to pursue fashion design and worked for Harriette Cole before finding her calling as a fine artist. She was a performance painter with the Brooklyn Bohemian scene at Brooklyn Moon Cafe that incubated the beginnings of careers such as Mos Def, Common, Saul Williams, Erykah Badu, Kevin Powell, and Sarah Jones.[4][5][6] Her work appears on as the cover art for Saul Williams' book, The Seventh Octave and his album, Amethyst Rock Star, and she collaborated with him on his book, S/HE.[7][8]

Jones' work was featured on numerous book covers and has had work at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Rush Arts Gallery and The 18th street Art Center, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Greensboro Artist League, New Image Art Gallery, and Spelman College. She was a Professor of Art at Clark Atlanta University 2004-2009[9]

Jones' work explores personal identity, sexuality, history and the female paradigm.[10][11] Her exhibition at the Harvey B. Gantt Center explored the dichotomy of the virgin and the whore through an analogy with Haitian Voodoo motifs and Magic City strip club culture.[1][12] There was significant controversy about the piece.[13][14]

In 2011 Jones was chosen to discuss creativity on a panel for Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.[15] She was featured in the Afropunk Showcase at Moogfest in 2014.[16] In 2005 she received a Caversham Printmaking Fellowship and attended the Spelman College Taller Portobello Artist Colony in 2006.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The Trove: Marcia Jones". pendulum. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  2. ↑ ifelicious. "(Pt 1/2) Interview with Saul Williams: Saturn’s daddy and ‘Volcanic Sunlight’". Ifelicious®. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  3. ↑ Moses, Olufunke. "Artist Marcia Jones works through her pain". Creative Loafing Charlotte. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  4. ↑ "jessica Care moore Mixes Art + Activism to a ‘Tea’ [INTERVIEW]". EBONY. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  5. ↑ Connor, Jackson. "Brooklyn’s Nkiru Books Rises Up Once More With Help From Talib Kweli". Village Voice. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  6. ↑ "Brooklyn Boheme - A feature documentary by Diane Paragas and Nelson George - Synopsis". www.bkboheme.com. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  7. ↑ Nieves, Evelyn (1998-09-27). "SHOPPING WITH/Saul Williams; Downtown to Stardom in One Leap". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  8. ↑ "Saul Williams - Amethyst Rock Star". Discogs. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  9. ↑ "Center for Women Writers Presents The Salon Series: Salem Visual Arts Student Workshop with Marcia Jones | Salem College". www.salem.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  10. ↑ "State of the Arts: Marcia Jones | #blkSOTA S2Ep2". Vimeo. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  11. ↑ "State of the Arts | Marcia Jones follow up: Displaced Oshun Theory". blackartinamerica.com. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  12. ↑ "Living in Color". Issuu. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  13. ↑ "Marcia Jones discusses “The Displaced Oshun Theory”". Creative Loafing Charlotte. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  14. ↑ "Provocative Questions for Interesting People". www.charlotteviewpoint.org. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  15. ↑ "The NEA's Charlotte visit". www.knightfoundation.org. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
  16. ↑ "Nerd Rave: Moogfest's Impeccable Selection of Synths and Sounds". www.keyboardmag.com. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
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