BLUE SENTINEL
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I’m honored and proud to announce my second show with M+B(the first was Doublestar 4 years ago!). It opens this Saturday, June 28th. I would love to see you there.
Thanks to @benjamintrigano@mblosangeles for the opportunity and support….Kitty, Bradley, and Sean. (The aces)
Big thanks to my love @tinabarouti what a wild and amazing summer it’s been so far.
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Images:
(Blue Sentinel) Horsepower in Absolute Nightfall, 2025
acrylic on canvas over panel
74 x 70 inches
188 x 177.8 cm
(Blue Sentinel) Twilight Structure, 2025 acrylic on canvas over panel
74 x 70 inches
188 x 177.8 cm
(Blue Sentinel) Sulek, 2025
acrylic on canvas over panel
63 x 57 inches
160 x 144.8 cm
(Blue Sentinel) Caged Spur with Black Horn, 2025
acrylic on canvas over panel
63 x 57 inches
160 x 144.8 cm
Somewhere between the shapes and the candles.
Another summer project I gave myself.
It’s hard to capture the surface value, but these paintings are done on putty reliefs I made, then cast into aluminum.
All 2024, oil on cast aluminum.
The Shapes
2024
Thank you and all my love to everyone that came out Friday. I had a great time at the opening, as well as a wonderful birthday.
This project has been a lot of fun for me, and was a perfect “summer project”- I’m honored that I get to share it with you.
Special thanks to @gross_gallery_la for putting this together and for the accompanying booklet.
The show is up through the month by appointment (give me a holler if you wanna hang out in Chinatown, walkthrough, lunch etc).
<3 Jonathan
Slides:
1. Driving as fast as I can up the Arroyo Secco Parkway
2024
Acrylic on canvas
53.5 x 45.5 x 1.5 inches
2. Royal Gulp
2024
Acrylic on canvas
32.5 x 52.5 x 1.5 inches
3. Beacon
2024
Acrylic on canvas
48.5 × 28.25 x 1.5 inches
4. Gentle in Sun
2024
Acrylic on canvas
36.5 x 28.5 x 1.5 inches
5. Green Wedge
2024
Acrylic and enamel on canvas
65.5 × 33.75 × 1.5
6. One step closer you…
2024
Acrylic on canvas
34 x 49 inches
Core Paintings I-V
2024
Acrylic on canvas
15x12x1 inches
38x28x2.5 centimeters
Summer project 2!
These little paintings are color studies and personal construction puzzles.
I wanted to make a more dynamic “blank” like I use for the Wet Sister paintings, initially thinking I would introduce text into my paintings (like I have with photo). Instead, I split this project with the posters and made two different bodies of work. They worked better separately and I need to learn not to overdo it. It’s hard for me to keep things simple, so this was an exercise in restraint.
All photos @docu_la
Yes, but what else?
2024
Screenprinted posters in 9 parts
22x18 inches
Unique and varied edition
One of my summer projects was this edition, a love letter of sorts to Los Angeles. All hand printed. It’s composed of 9 taglines,phrases, and/or “poems” that I would normally probably use as painting titles, but in this case wanted to present them very literally as they are as posters. These were displayed incrementally through the summer on light poles mostly throughout the Eastside (Pasadena-Silverlake), but I reserved a few to be editions without the staple holes. To my surprise the Westside doesn’t really have wooden light poles!
Anyways, I wanted this work to be seen and taken by LA, and it was fun (also kinda sad) to see a lot of these gone within 24 hours. Some are still up in Highland Park, and along the 110 N.
I’ve been a lifelong admirer of Colby Printing, which to me was as important and inspirational to 20th and 21st century art as any artist from LA, and I tried my best to mimic the ubiquitous Colby look. It’s as LA as it gets.
Also shoutout to Allen Ruppersberg, Sister Corita Kent, Eve Fowler, and Jenny Holzer as well.
<3 Jonathan
#iistarsigns
Fighting to be gentle and precious
2024
Acrylic on canvas
27 x 30 x 1.75 inches
68.58 x 76.2 x 4.4 cm
Thank you @ramirostudio@bozomag@masseykleingallery for including this painting in your group presentation, Ghost Ship.
This giant moth was fluttering around the breakfast table in Roatan @casapequenaroatan
Probably drawn to us by the smell of fruits and cut flowers, crashing itself onto the table, before flying into the patio window. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Also seen is a collection of flowers I’ve taken (picked) over the past year to mix into other paintings.
Then, from a waning sprint, it became a walking opera
2023-2024
Acrylic on canvas
86x116x2 inches
This painting is the show, and the show is called
Rippy Bits.
A collection of the bits, pieces, people, and places that have inspired me and my paintings from Under a Big Sky, Pink Diamond Too, and This Palace.
You’re probably in the painting…
And! Surprise! This is the largest painting I’ve ever made.
Come see the immersive installation this Friday, March 1st. Opening 5-8pm but up through April 7th
@bozomag
815 Cresthaven Ave. Los Angeles, Ca.
The gratitude list is long, but for now, thanks to @bannydowman for entertaining this idea/project for the past year and seeing the vision. It started out as a “wouldn’t be cool if we did a one painting show” thought….and now it’s this.
And again thanks to Sean Hernandez @press_friends for all the help and support.
Strawberry milk cast
2023
Acrylic on canvas
36.25x35.5x2inches
From Pink Diamond Too @woawgallery last October
I’m working on an immersive piece from this series that I’ll be showing March 1st with @bozomag
Who and what will be included? Details to come…
Stay tuned
<3
Jonathan
This Palace
…has closed
Thank you to everyone who came to see the show.
Thank you to Adam and Lauren and Sadie for giving me the opportunity to show the work, and giving me the last show in the original location 🥲
This was the biggest project I’ve ever done with the most grueling production. It’s a total honor to have the work shown with yall @thepitla
Also big thanks to everyone who let me take their photo or recontextualize their drawings to make these paintings. It’s a privilege to be your friend, and the work wouldn’t be the same with out all of you.
Thanks to John @mut_la for building all my surfaces
Thanks to Sean @press_friends for teaching me the printing tricks 6 years ago, and for giving me the keys to your shop after hours.
Thanks to Ruben Diaz @docu_la for the photos.
All my love,
Jonathan
Paintings:
For the love of handsome women IV
2023
63x57x2 inches
160x145x5cm
Acrylic on canvas over panel
Just happy to be here with yall
2023
63x57x2 inches
160x145x5cm
Acrylic on canvas over panel
That side of Paradise; the palace lights and the Juggernaut’s garden
2023
63x57x2 inches
160x145x5cm
Acrylic on canvas over panel
