Wilmington College’s Harcum Gallery to present ‘Landscape Segments’ exhibit

Jeffery Cortland Jones describes his upcoming exhibit at Wilmington College’s Harcum Gallery as “works about place, once familiar, yet not. That place of remembering and simultaneously forgetting. Of triumph and tragedy. Of breathing and drowning. Of mourning and morning.”

Jones’ exhibit, titled “Landscape Segments,” will be featured March 19 through May 2. An artist’s reception with refreshments is scheduled for March 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. Normal gallery hours are weekdays, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and by special appointment scheduled through the gallery curator, Hal Shunk, emeritus professor of art. Harcum Gallery is located in Boyd Cultural Arts Center, corner of College and Douglas streets.

“I am interested in the landscape as a physical location and as an unattainable romantic idea,” Jones added. He is a full professor in the University of Dayton’s Department of Art + Design. He has a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in painting and drawing from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and a Master of Fine Art in painting and drawing from the University of Cincinnati.  

“I am interested in locating, apprehending then releasing, the resistance of a color (and) then surrendering to it, a hard edge as it softens, the slight peeking that comes from covering and layering, that space between the wall and the object, when shallow and deep appear the same, what it’s like to look through the fog, when a mostly matte surface shifts to a little tinge of gloss that hangs out at the edge, that place between misplacing and finding, how white can be both warm and cool at the same time, when you find that correcting is making it worse, the moment when a stable stack is on the verge of collapse and when contemplation breaks down and you go for it.”

Jones’ work is featured in private collections in North America, Europe and China, as well as at the Arizona Biltmore, Cleveland Clinic, Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, Brooklyn Art Library, the Ritz-Carlton in Naples and Amelia Island, Florida, and the universities of Dayton, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas Southwestern.

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