OUTPOST1000
  • Exhibits 1
    • Doughnut Power . Robert Don
    • S/PLI/T Projects with Tessa Heck, Chloe Cooper
    • Clay Lohmann (2)
    • Julia Bradshaw
    • Subarna Talukder Bose
    • GOT IT MADE
    • Dana Reason . UNhearD (2000-
    • WE LIVE HERE the artists of Benton Plaza
    • Her Mind Moves Upon Silences
    • preundermeaning
    • THIS IS MUTANT POP!
    • Patrick Collier
    • Jonathan Ware
    • Anna Fidler + Tropical Contemporary
    • IN YOUR HOUSE... A DOOR with Zachary Gough
    • Hester Coucke with Mandy Hampton
  • 2
    • Johnny Beaver/Andrew Fisher
    • Aisha Rose McCoy
    • Roxanna Hendricks
    • The David Angel
    • GlosureAndContinuity
    • +/-
    • Brianna Miller & Dale Scott at Prisms Gallery
    • Silas Jones
    • Corvallis Word Factory
    • Storming The Academy
    • Jonathan D. Parks
    • Steve Pavey
    • Rachel Warkentin
    • Rachel Mulder
    • REEDYMON
    • Francisco Morales
    • Jamie Walsh
    • 10 in 10
  • 3
    • Photographs by Natalie Krick
    • Kaitlyn Wittig Mengüç
    • G-Litter
    • Caroline Moses
    • Lily Hudnell-Almas
    • Looking West: Exploring with the Corvallis Tree Being (With Kaitlyn Wittig Menguc)
    • Justin Lodge Vivid Conjuring
    • I Understand Where You're Coming From
    • Cara Tomlinson
    • Daniel Watkins and Milla Oliveira
    • Larry Hurst
    • CEI ArtWorks @ Bison bison
    • Eliza Murphy
    • Workbooks . Phillip March Jones
    • etc.
    • Shawn Creeden
  • 4
    • Kathryn Cellerini Moore
    • Muriel Condon
    • Michael Boonstra
    • The Adventures of the Worlds Royal Family's as they separate from the world we live in
    • Andrew Myers.Drawing Constructions
    • Cynthia Lahti
    • AUTOSPACE
    • I Did This to Myself
    • Portland Art and Learning
    • Patrick Hackleman (CEI)
    • Rachel Grant/Paul McGurl
    • Voices from Home
    • We Take the Long Way
    • Tropical Contemporary: A disappointing weather report
    • Anne Magratten
    • inVISIBLE 2015-2016 (evoking fairiew training center) >
      • inVISIBLE (Spring 2015)
      • Sam's interviews (disability culture) Story.Corps.Me
      • inVISIBLE
  • 5
    • Perry Johnson & Terry Johnson
    • Bruce Conkle
    • Jonathan Bucci
    • 3 Floods . R.J. Baynum Jr.
    • Jill R Baker
    • COLLAGE MONSTER
    • Michael Reinsch
  • artists
    • Kurt Fisk
    • Patrick Hackleman
    • Kris Askew
    • Dale Leroy Scott
    • Ruth Van Order
    • Matt Conklin
    • Matt Conklin's World of Wonders
    • Rick Kleinowski
    • Amy Turner
    • Susan Woods
    • Jeremy Cheney
    • Linda Bach
    • Mike Fairchild
    • Marieke Mirsch
  • Living Studios
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​Jonathan Ware
ARTIST STATEMENT


In 1995 the collaborative team of Komar and Melamid created series of the Most and Least Wanted Paintings.  The subject matter, size, style, and so forth were created based on surveys given in a variety of locations worldwide.  The aspect that strikes me most about this body of work was the predominance of the landscape as a preferred subject across various cultures, ethnicities, languages, and geographical locations.  More recently there has been a growing body of research that links the benefits of exposure to the natural environment to brain function and body chemistry that also bridges those same divides.  A summary of this later research is found in Selhub and Logan’s Your Brain on Nature, 2014.  Taken together these two different trajectories, one aesthetic and the other physiological, point towards deeply embedded connection between the landscape and our humanity that transcends difference.
 
Difference now carries greater importance than it once did and the notion of connectedness is in danger of becoming banal through overuse.  Similiarly, the landscape as a viable genre has been all but abandoned by the great majority of visual artists working today and is the target of serious critics within the discipline.  Nevertheless, the landscape and our connection to it remain compelling, and in light of what is noted here, I made the decision to turn my work away from the figurative based loosely on autobiographical narratives and towards the pursuit of the landscape as subject with broader relevance.  From the initial works, this exploration has developed over the years to engage a multifaceted understanding of and relationship to both nature and the landscape.  My work relies heavily on time spent traveling the trails, farms, waterways, and landscape of Kentucky.  These are a reflection of the many hours and days I have spent paddling the Kentucky River.  I hope you enjoy them.
 
ARTISTS BIOGRAPHY
I am 7th generation Kentuckian and my family’s presence here date prior to the Revolutionary War when Kentucky was still a part of Virginia.  My roots run deep in our native clay and I was fortunate to have spent a good chunk of my childhood playing in its woods, fields, rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds.  That time and the influence of my family’s love of the outdoors cultivated my own affection for the landscape and I have coupled it with my interest in fine arts. I enjoy a number of outdoor activities with my family as well as the solitude and reflection that time in the landscape provides.  Through formal study and travel I have been fortunate to have met many people from various backgrounds, levels of education, cultures, languages, and so forth.  Certainly our understanding of difference has grown and we have learned to appreciate it in others.  Despite or perhaps because of the all the differences I have experienced, I remain most struck and preoccupied by aspects held in common with humanity as they reach across multiple boundaries such as time, culture, language, and geography.  My artistic investigations are, in part, born out of this preoccupation.
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