The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Ben Jones: The Video, the West Coast solo museum debut of the artistʼs work, on view at MOCA Pacific Design Center from November 3, 2012, through February 24, 2012. The exhibition features new videos and paintings that build upon the artist’s previous work using the extracted and abstracted forms of technology and pop symbols of our time to create irreverent, surrealistic, and introspective narratives and environments, often defined by their kaleidoscopic arrays of day-glo colors. With a fluid sense of material, Jones has worked with traditional art media like painting, drawing and sculpture, but also animated music videos, produced zines and costumes, furniture and web art, cartoons and music.

In Jones’ work, ethereal geometries and celebratory colors come together in stripped test patterns and blocky isometric illusions. His work locates itself in the earliest moments of seemingly obsolescent digital animation, partly as self-conscious nostalgia but more truly to expand the unrealized potential of this artistic medium. Check out a selection of Jones' work, above.

Source - MOCA

Jack Smylie