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Fred Jones
"In the 1940s Fred Jones was an active member of the Southside Community Arts Center in Chicago working side by side with Eldzier Cortor and other outstanding artists from Chicago. Jones was an uncommonly popular artist in his day, and exhibited throughout the South, winning prestigious awards at various collegiate exhibitions. Jones was both a serious artist and scholar. He was deeply influenced by the work of the New Negro movement, and sought to incorporate an "African" aesthetic into his work. Like his mentor, Cortor, who studied in Haiti in an effort to reconnect with his lost African roots, Jones worked to bring elements of modernism with what he saw as traditional and African elements. Color and form were his main tools for this effort." Notes written by William Parker Hathcock, III - Art Curator and Consultant |
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Exihibits
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2009
Jonathan Green Art Collection Group Exhibition
Featuring contemporary artists represented by The Jonathan Green Art Collection
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2008
Group Show
Color Blind, Metallica, Sex and the City
Sweet Art Gallery, Naples, Florida
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2008
The Best of Ringling - Juried Exhibition
Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
Juried by Dominique Nahas, Independent curator and critic based in New York.
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2008
Cosmix - Group Exhibition
South Florida Museum, Bradenton,Florida
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2003
Go Figure
Juried Exhibition, vonLiebig Art Center, Naples, Florida
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2002
Sculpture Squared
Juried Exhibition, vonLiebig Art Center, Naples, Florida
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2002
Gators Galore
...Dabba Doo, Yabba's, Naples, Florida
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2001
Text and Image
Juried Exhibition, vonLiebig Art Center, Naples, Florida
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Awards
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2007 Alummi Hall of Fame
Beaufort High School - Beaufort, South Carolina
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2005 Man of the Year
from Gulfshore Life Magazine
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2004 Honorary Chair
United Arts Council of Collier County Celebrate the Arts Gala
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