KB Jones, born in 1979 in Huntsville, TX, earned an MFA in Painting from The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, and a BA in Philosophy and Visual Art from Columbia University in New York, NY. The subjects of Jones’ paintings are varied. Her work looks at the relationship between mind and landscape, using both oil and industrial paints (oil for intimate portraits and clearance house paint for flat, composite landscapes) to set up a dichotomy of intimacy and distance, with both offering visual comfort. Her recent solo exhibitions include The Land and the Fog at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, NY (2023); Betty at Premises Gallery in Dallas, TX (2024); and Green Lights at The Lemonade Stand in Fairbanks, AK (2024). Her paintings were included in Plein Air (2022), an exhibition curated by Aurora Tang that explored shifting ideas of Western landscape, fieldwork, and painting, presented at MOCA Tucson in Tucson, AZ, and The Armory Center for the Arts in Los Angeles, CA. Jones was awarded a residency at The Chinati Foundation in 2020. The artist’s drawings and paintings have been featured in and on the cover of several publications, most recently Kendra Sullivan’s Reps and Stacy Szymaszek’s Famous Hermits, and she has participated in numerous collaborations with The Poetry Project. Jones currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
