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Jonesy (Hannah Jones)

Listen as Jonesy and Russell Ihrig explore relationships between Jonesy’s Check All That Apply and Edmonia Lewis’ sculpture, Hiawatha’s Marriage.

 

Jonesy's Check All That Apply, a square painting of the bust of a woman. The right side of her face appears a second time shifted just slightly to the left as if to peer over her right shoulder. The woman is filled in with a collage of vivid colors and bright red lipstick. Four black bars appear from behind her and stretch out to the top, bottom, left, and right sides of the painting.

Jonesy (Hannah Jones) (b. 1993) United States, Check All That Apply, 2020, acrylic on canvas, courtesy of the artist, © Hannah Jones.  Photograph: Rob Deslongchamps.

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Edmonia Lewis' Hiawatha's Marriage, a marble sculpture of a Native American man and woman. The woman stands slightly ahead of the man and hold his right hand in hers, placing her left hand on her chest. The man places his left hand on her left shoulder as they look towards each other.

Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) United States, Hiawatha's Marriage,1871, marble, On loan in loving memory of Drs. George and Sarah Hale, L11.1993

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About the Artist

Caramel. Queer. Citizen of the Planet.
(She/Her/They/Them)
Hannah “Jonesy” Jones is a 27-year-old mixed race queer artist and intersectional feminist currently based in Cincinnati, OH. Her work fantasizes a world that thrives outside basic hetero-normative thinking. She uses loud, vivid, saturated, pop imagery to tell stories that illuminate and dignify ALL HUMANS on every level of the spectrum who are visualized happily thriving in full flying, glorious colors outside the rigid black and white boxes society places on them and their identities.

Jonesy wants her audience to see something positive and exciting in her work and feel SEEN and embraced and celebrated for the unique colors of their existence. She encourages you to see yourself in living color.

She is grateful and honored for the opportunity to be in the graces of such talented, beautiful, BLACK magical beings.

 

Submitted September 2020