“It’s tempting to tether ourselves to the familiar comfort of the way things are, but fulfillment is often discovered in the unpredictable and unknown.”
“This idea of fulfillment as articulated by the photographer and poet Jaeda DeWalt finds particular resonance in my thoughts. Fulfillment can mean many things to many people. To an artist, the printed word, the harmonies and counterpoint of music, the voice and gesture of the dramatic arts, or the colors and blank surfaces of the painter, fulfillment comes in the act of intimate communication with the reader, listener, audience, or viewer. All art is a reaching out to share the very personal vision of the artist with others.
I have used shape, color and scale to create a sense of things both strange and familiar; to flavor the known with the unknown; and give to the viewer a sense of discovery amid scenes and objects. This intriguing ambiguity for the viewer is a result of their memory, abstraction of the natural world, surrealist images, and the melding of all these things into a subjective interpretation.”
“Painting is as much an act of discovery for me as it is for the viewer. The fulfillment from the act of creating both individual and collective works of art is more satisfying the less predictable my paths, and more surprising my destinations”.
Jon Taner, MFA
About Jon Taner
MIXED MEDIA ARTIST
Jon Taner was born and raised in New Jersey. His earliest studies at the Art Students League in New York City were followed by classes at the Philadelphia College of Art in Pennsylvania.
He obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California College of Arts and Crafts (renamed the California College of the Arts) and his Master of Fine Arts from Syracuse University where he was awarded a Ford Foundation Grant for both years of his studies.
Other training included workshops with master printmaker Bernard Greenwald in Stottville and Hudson, New York and course work in fine art appraisal at New York University.
Taner has been represented by many galleries throughout California, New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, and Florida.
Corporations that have added Jon’s work to their art collections include: Intercontinental Hotels, Schering Plough, Nabisco, Peckar and Abramson PA, Dragoco, Passaic County Community College and the former Bergen County Museum of Art. He is also in many private collections throughout the United States.
His work has been on view at the American Airlines Ambassador Lounge at Miami International Airport where he is represented by Jennifer Embler Fine Art.
Jon is represented by Kathy Imlay Fine Art.
Featured Shows
- 2020 The Bangor Art Society Open Juried Show, 1st Place in Mixed Media
- 2019 Mixed Media Collages on Canvas and Watercolor Collages, solo show The Sohn’s Gallery, Bangor, Maine
- 2018 Outside In, One Art Space, TriBeCa, New York, NY
- 2017-2018 Draw Cut Shoot Print Assemble, Works on Paper, The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie
- 2017 Brassworks and Gallery 491, Pop-Up Gallery shows in Montclair, NJ
- 2017 Ten street banners displaying reproduction of acrylic/collage painting “Triple E” promoting the arts throughout Montclair, NJ *Juried Competition
- 2017 Studio Montclair Viewpoints 2017, Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ *Juried Competition
- 2016 Traces Threading Through Time, The Gallery at Hillside Square, Montclair, NJ
- 2015 River Street & More, Lippman Gallery, Temple B’nai Jeshrun, Short Hills, NJ
- 2015 Montclair Art Museum Gala of the Arts
- 2014 - 2015 Embler Fine Art, Miami International Airport, American Airlines VIP Lounge
- 2014 Small Works Show at Lev Shalom Institute, Woodstock, NY
- 2014 Imlay Fine Art, Montclair, NJ
- 2013 - 2014 Fulfillment, The Bergen Performing Art Center, Englewood, NJ
- 2012 Parallax Art Fair, New York City, NY
- 2011 - 2012 C2 Fine Art, Saint Petersburg, FL
- 2011 - Present Hopkins Wharf Gallery, North Haven, ME
- 2010 - Present Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
- 2009 The Harmon Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
- 2008 - 2010 Gail Browne Gallery, Provincetown, MA
- 2008 The Fieldstone Gallery, Ramsey, NJ
- 2008 North Haven Gallery, North Haven, ME
Publications
- Paterson Literary Review, Issue 42, 2014-2015
- The Sunday Star Ledger, Eileen Watkins, “Colorful Oil Collages Exude Vitality”, Jan. 30, 1983
- The Courier Gazette, North Haven, ME July 17, 2008