Kasey Jones

This month’s featured artist, Kasey Jones, brings a bold and striking collection of black and white drawings that echo the look and feel of classic linocut prints. Jones’ line work is detailed and deliberate, giving each piece a sense of movement and depth — a whole lot to take in. the subjects featured in each piece are just as compelling, often carrying a surreal or mysterious (and subtly anarchist) edge; there is something quietly defiant in the way each image unfolds. Each powerful and precise illustration says something, and sticks with you long after you’ve stopped looking… we dare you to dive in. ~ Madelyn Olson

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Mad swirl #1 — Kasey Jones

Morgaine Mortel — Kasey Jones

Rattle the cage, bang the drum — Kasey Jones

US. RESIST — Kasey Jones

Portrait of a Dangerous Youth — Kasey Jones

The United States of Anarchy — Kasey Jones

Tim Drum Syndrome, I stay loud — Kasey Jones

Buy, sell Trade Ammo — Kasey Jones

A bit about Kasey: Born in Dallas, TX in 1966, Kasey graduated from Lake Highlands High School where she lettered in five varsity sports. She played for the Sting soccer club from 1978 to 1985, winning four U-19 National Championships, including the Woman’s World Soccer Championship in Xian, China in 1984. The first Women's World Cup where she was named MVP most valuable player and World Champion. After high school, she moved away from Dallas as fast as possible. College started at Univ. of N. Carolina on a full soccer scholarship, and then she moved to do her MFA at PRATT Institute in NYC.

Kasey holds a MFA Visual Arts from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and a BA Department of Dramatic Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she attended on a full woman’s athletic scholarship winning two NCAA National titles.

Kasey’s first encounter with art occurred when, at the age of three, her mother enrolled her in art classes at Southern Methodist University. Later that same year she entered two of the works in the Texas State Art Fair, where she won co-first prize with a ninety-three years old grandmother.

When asked why she chose art as a career, she had this to say: “In the obsession of the creative act itself, one is relatively warm and safe. Memory comes, not as a cloudy distraction, but as an enveloping otherness. In the dark, vague hallway to everywhere, we find the source of our pain, the causes of separations and the reasons for reconstruction. It is because of this need to reconnect that I make art.” Be sharp, be loud, stay dangerous.