Jon Redmond

About

Jon Redmond is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, having received the Fellowship Award of Excellence at the Academy in 2007. He earned his MFA from the University of Delaware. His work has been purchased by the Delaware Art Museum, The University of Delaware, West Chester University and several additional public and private collections.

Jon Redmond is a contemporary American painter whose still life paintings and architectural works showcase the confidence of an artist intimately familiar with his subject matter while retaining a pure enchantment with light and form. His paintings are influenced by the artist’s exploration of his past haunts and his search for places that show the gritty patina of daily use, places that convey a feeling of home.

Artist’s Statement

My work has to satisfy my love of paint as a medium, the feel of it being laid onto the canvas, and the need to evoke certain space, time or type of light.

Most of my paintings are created on the spot, sparked by the glimpse of simple, everyday places or things – a spot of sunlight on a brick wall or shapes created by the shadows of buildings or trees, perhaps seen through a car or train window. No subject should be too recognizable or filled with preconceptions. Figures just seem to get in the way of my paintings, so I try to create the effect of an empty stage, onto which the viewer may easily enter.

I love the way humankind and nature are constantly struggling to control space – Man verses Nature and Nature verses man. However, if I were to sum up my painting in one word, it would be “contrast.” Like the way a unique piece of architecture breaks up the monotony of main street, or the emotion that is evoked by light raking through a dark forest, I try to make people see simple scenes they might pass every day but never notice so that they might discover the beauty hidden just below the surface.

— Jon Redmond

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023         Maundering, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2021         No Particular Place To Go, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2019         Remains, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2017         New Paintings, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2015         New Paintings, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2013         New Paintings, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2011          Apertures, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2009         New Works, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2007         Out of the Ordinary, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2005         Home & Abroad, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2003         Recent Travel Paintings, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2003         Looking at Vinylville, MFA Thesis Exhibition, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

2001         Fellowship Exhibition, Delaware State Arts Council, Wilmington/Newark, DE

2000         Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

1998         Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

1996         An American Town, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

1994         Canopies, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

1993         Artist’s House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1992         Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021         PAST | PRESENT | FUTURE, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2008         American Green, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

2006         Hotel Lorraine Exhibition, Yards Brewery Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2006         Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (prize)

2005         Chester County Arts Association Annual Photography Exhibition, Chester County Art Association, West Chester, PA

2005         Speaking for Themselves, West Chester University, West Chester, PA

2003         Annual Auction, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

2003         Alumni Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2003         Regional MFA, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

2003         Emerging Artists, Maryland Federation of the Arts, Baltimore, MD

2002         New Blood Exhibition, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

2002         Six Degrees in Cold Storage, CAA Graduate Programs Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

1999         Faculty and Student Group Exhibition, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

1998         173rd Annual Exhibition, The National Academy Museum, New York, NY (prize)

1998         Contemporary Landscape, Northampton College, Bethlehem, PA

1997         The Unbroken Line 1897 – 1997, Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA

1997         Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA

1996         Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

1995         Four Viewpoints, Chester County Art Association, West Chester, PA

1995         Black & White, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

1994         99th Annual PAFA Fellowship Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

1993         Biennial, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

1993         Inside/Out Exhibition, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

1993         Realism ’93, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV

1993         Pew Fellowship Exhibition, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

1992         Reflections of the Brandywine: 100 Years, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE

1992         Lippincott Gallery Presents, Philip & Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA

Selected Awards and Honors

2007          Fellowship Award of Excellence, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Fellowship, Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA

2006         May Audubon Post Award, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Fellowship, Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA

2005         Excellence Award, Annual Photography Exhibition, Chester County Art Association, West Chester, PA

2002         Competitive Scholarship with stipend, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

2000         Individual Artist Fellowship, Delaware Division of The Arts, Wilmington, DE

2000         New American Paintings Competition, Issue No. 27, The Open Studios Press

1998         S. J. Wallace Truman Prize, National Academy, New York, NY

1995         Mary Butler Memorial Award, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1992         Pew Charitable Trust Fellowship/Vermont Studio Center Residency

1990         William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1990         Wallace Cadwalader Prize for Landscape & Portraiture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1990         Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1988         Wallace Cadwalader Prize for Landscape & Portraiture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Public Collections

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Historic Yellow Springs Incorporated, Chester Springs, PA
QVC, West Chester, PA
Brown Brothers Harriman Company, Philadelphia, PA
West Chester University, West Chester, PA
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Chester County Hospital, West Chester, PA
Brandywine Valley Association, Unionville, PA
Arco Chemical Corporation, Plymouth Meeting, PA
Rohm & Haas Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Maryland Bank North America, Wilmington, DE
Lenfest Communications, West Chester, PA
The B. and B. Herman Collection, Newark, DE
Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, PA

Selected Private Collections

Sen. Bob Thompson, Pennsylvania

Education

2001-03     MFA, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

1987-91      4 Year Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1982-86     BFA, West Chester University, West Chester, PA

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