Jones, Penelope. UNTITLED. Gouache on paper, 2021. Signed in pencil, verso. 5 1/4 x 5 inches. An abstract design in Blue, Green, Gray, and Black.Born and raised in upstate NY, Penelope Jones received a BFA from MECA and an MFA from Cornell University. After a stint living and working in Boston, she moved back to Maine, where she resides and exhibits her work. Since 1992 she has taught visual arts at Cornell University, Bowdoin College, Maine College of Art, University of Southern Maine and SMCC. She has been a part-time lecturer at Bates College for over 20 years.Penelope Jones embraces architectural structure, surface texture, and color interaction in her paintings, drawings, and collages. Her work is inspired by such disparate sources as Ukiyo-e Japanese paintings, boat slip structures, the snaking streams of Maine estuaries, and architectural details from the Alhambra Palace in Spain. She takes great pleasure in precise lines, angular and curved shapes, and spatial ambiguity. (From the texts for her exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine).
