Jonathan Paul Gillette
Jonathan Paul Gillette is a painter who works in series.
Rather than focusing on repetition itself, his practice is an effort to see how the first in a series appears among its counterparts. For this work, Gillette paints the same subject ten, twelve, sixteen times over. Each painting shifts in small ways—angle, focus, color, execution—creating a coherent, yet ultimately meaningless, collection of works. His subject matter includes traditional still lives, saccharine landscapes, religious iconography, airbrush sports fields, and nonrepresentational fields of color or pattern. His works point to fine art hierarchies around painting and representation, and challenge the auratic art object as much as its revered subjects.
New York, NY
Born 1980, Tennessee, US
2005 MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2002 BA Union University, Jackson, TN
www.jonnypaulgillette.com