David Jones

B.F.A., University of Georgia, 2000
M.F.A., University of Tennessee, 2004

 

David Jones, originally from Augusta, Georgia, received his BFA in sculpture from the University of Georgia in 2000. For the following year he resided in Birmingham, Alabama where he worked in the Sloss Metal Arts Artist-in-Residency program casting iron before going on to pursue his master’s degree in Sculpture. In 2004 he received his MFA in sculpture from the University of Tennessee. Upon graduation, he moved from Knoxville, TN to the Rocky Mountain West in Laramie, Wyoming.

The Western landscape has proved to be a significant influence that has surfaced in the aesthetic and themes of Jones’s work over the last twenty-one years. This influence has helped to form three distinct bodies of work that defines his studio process. In addition to working in the studio, Jones has begun to expand his creative process to working outdoors in sites such as the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover UT, and the Red Desert region in Southern Wyoming. David actively exhibits nationally, but more prominently throughout the intermountain west in cities such as Denver, Colorado and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Jones is a founding board member of the Western Cast Iron Art Alliance (founded in 2008), https://wciaa.org.  He is also a founding member of the Land Report Collective (founded in 2010), a cross country artist collective that exhibits works nationally, works that address issues of land use.  https://landreportcollective.com/home.html