Lamar Jones
CV
American
b. 1989 Milwaukee, WI
Lives and works between Los Angeles, California and New York
2022
War or Peace
Art Impact Int.
V2 Exhibition
Mark Borghi gallery
Protect Habitat, Save the Planet, Art Impact Int.
Washington, D.C.
Sag Harbor, NYC
Washington, D.C.
2018
Group Exhibition, Saatchi Gallery
Santa Monica, California
2017
Group Exhibition, Art For Life
Chicago, Illinois
2017
Group Exhibition, Fulton Market Gallery
Chicago, Illinois
2016
Group Exhibition, Paint The Runway
Baltimore, Maryland
2016
Group Exhibition, The Set NYC
Manhattan, New York City
2016
Group Exhibition, New York Fashion Week
Washington, D.C.
2016
Group Exhibition, Art Ist EXPO Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland
2016
Group Exhibition, Art In Dusk
Washington, D.C.
2014
Group Exhibition, Penn Social
Washington, D.C.
2014
Group Exhibition, Creative Alliance Gallery
Baltimore, Maryland
2012
Group Exhibition, Art Fusion
Washington, D.C.
Biography
Lamar Jones has spent his art career focusing on being an accurate visual chronicler and storyteller of African American life. His work is an amalgamation of figurative representation and abstraction. Central to his raison d'être is to show that African Americans are a people of strong values, a community that is hard working and dedicated to growth and improvement. He is currently exploring abstraction and is fascinated by the way this mode of painting is expanding his desire to better understand the complexities associated with the Black perspective. Jones's work incorporates texts, motifs and symbols and engages with issues including self-identity, family, love and other topics that are important to the everyday African American. While he understands that Black people are not a monolith, it has become his passion to set the record straight and give exposure to a group who have too long lived on the margins of society and in the shadows of art history. His intention is to communicate beauty and humanity in his artwork.