Jon Howard Young

Details

Nationality: American
Url: http://jon-young.com
Url: http://openstudios-stl.org/portfolio/jon-young
Recognition: Purchase Award, UW College of Arts & Sciences, 2015
Recognition: Purchase Award, UW Office of Student Affairs, 2015
Recognition: 4th Biennial Western Cast Iron Art Conference Juried Exhibition, Best in Show, 2014
Recognition: UW Arts & Sciences Deans Choice Award, 2013
Recognition: Sam Fox School Graduate Scholarship, 2016
Recognition: Russin Excellence in figural sculpture, 2014
Recognition: Dick and Lynne Cheney Study Abroad, 2014
Recognition: Thieme International Scholarship, 2014
Recognition: Russin Excellence in figural sculpture, 2013
Education: MFA candidate 2018, Washington University in St.Louis
Education: BFA The University of Wyoming, 2015
Publication: https://silverspacestl.com/jon-young 2017
Publication: UW Art department Brochure 2015
Publication: Owen Wister Review 2014
Teaching: Teaching Assistantship Washington University, Des Lee Gallery, 2018
Teaching: Teaching Assistantship Washington University, 2D Design, Foundry, 2017
Teaching: Teaching Assistantship Washington University, 3D Foundations, Foundry, 2016
Teaching: Student Instructor for the 2015 UW Art Intensive, Sculpture
Teaching: Post-baccalaureate, UW Sculpture Department, 2014
Teaching: Student Instructor for the 2014 UW Art Intensive, Sculpture
Teaching: Student Instructor for the 2013 UW Art Intensive, Life Drawing
Internship: White Flag Projects Internship 2015
Internship: CAVE 3D Visualization Center Internship 2014
Internship: UW Art Department Woodshop Internship 2013
Internship: UW Visual Arts Gallery Internship 2012-13
Position: Visual Arts Department representative to the UW College of Arts and Science Student Council, 2012 -2013
Position: UW Student Art League, Secretary, 2012-2013
Position: UW Sculpture Society, Member. 2012 -2015

Description

Jon Young's work deals with the development of language, visual symbols, and signage. Young appropriates symbols from various points in history: looking back to Paleolithic cave paintings and Greek pottery to contemplate visual language as well as pulling symbols from recent culture such as the line in the sand found in Western films and cartoons. Using the American West as a backdrop, he grounds the position of these works in histories and mythologies of new frontiers. The work comes from the artist's experience of continuous travel that came with being a child of a military family and reflects on the cultural displacement of my Native American identity.

Young use textiles, sand collected from significant places of a nomadic life, and the languages of the Arte Povera movement to create works that act as signs to become points of orientation in an ever shifting sense of place and time.

Sources:

http://openstudios-stl.org/portfolio/jon-young

https://www.jon-young.com

Exhibitions

Solo

Third Post, Bruno David Gallery, St Louis MO, 2018

Waymark Margins, Lewis Center, St Louis MO, 2018

Waymarks, Lewis Center, St. Louis MO, 2016

Shelved, Lewis Center, St. Louis MO, 2016

A Westward Flow, Gallery 234, Laramie WY, 2015

Broke His Crown, THIS Gallery, Laramie WY, 2014

Periodic End Tables, THIS Gallery, Laramie WY, 2012

Group

Lot 49, The Luminary, St Louis MO, 2018

My Spirit Animal Comes with a Pretzel Bun, Lewis Center, St Louis MO, 2018

Joyride, Bermuda Projects, Ferguson MO, 2017

Parabola, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis MO, 2016

2015 BFA Exhibition, UW Visual Arts Gallery, Laramie WY, 2015

40th Annual Juried University of Wyoming Student Exhibition, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie WY, 2015

Turkey “A Journey Though Anatolia”, 234 Gallery, Laramie WY, 2015

3rd Annual Juried International Exhibition of Contemporary Islamic Art, Lumin Art Gallery, Dallas TX, 2014

4th Biennial Western Cast Iron Art Conference Juried Exhibition, University of Wyoming Visual Arts Gallery, Laramie WY, 2014

Rocky Mountain Invitational Exhibition, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper WY, 2014

Pop up Show, Laramie WY, 2014

38th Annual Juried University of Wyoming Student Exhibition, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie WY, 2013

Centennial Complex Gallery, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie WY, 2013

Collections

Public

University of Wyoming College of Arts And Science

University of Wyoming Office of Student Affairs

Private

Wongvalley Collection, Dallas Texas

Bruno David, St Louis MO

Gossip

Lots of info on artsy https://www.artsy.net/show/bruno-david-gallery-and-bruno-david-projects-jon-howard-young-third-post