Aaron Jones

Aaron Jones creates images and objects to explore the possibilities in world-building and abstraction. The artist works with different forms of collage, sourcing images from magazines like Essence and O, as well as from educational texts such as encyclopedias on space, nature, and wildlife. He combines excerpts from these disparate sources to build characters and spaces that reflect the nuances of his own upbringing and current life, and act as a pathway toward finding peace. Intimate in scale, his collages are a study in opposing forces which investigate—in part—how Black subjectivity is constructed and the ways in which it might be undone, altered, and made anew. As he recombines material, he builds new images that are surreal, amorphous forms that defy categorization.