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Jonas Gerard
Coming Home; My Sanctuary
Acrylic on functional door with hardware ready to install. Door painted on both sides.
Born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1941, of French and Brazilian ancestry, Gerard is a self-taught artist. Influenced by the great contemporary Masters, such as Willem DeKooning, Jackson Pollock, Hans Hoffman, and Franz Kline, Gerard has found his own voice of abstraction. Color, form and texture dancing spontaneously across the canvas awakens all the senses and charges every painting with its own spirit. The work has vitality and energy. "For me painting is like an intense compulsion motivated by the love of the process itself, allowing me to become more comfortable with uncertainty and unpredictability which opens up a whole world of new possibilities."
Gerard’s work is currently limited to acrylics on canvas, and mixed media / found objects collage. His work has been exhibited all over the United States and abroad, and is in numerous private and public collections, including the Smithsonian Institution, He is now established in a 5,000 sq ft studio and gallery at the River Arts District as well as the featured artist in the Ashville Area Arts Council Front Gallery in Downtown Asheville.
