About

Jon Imber
There and Then: Paintings, 2002-2012
March 1 – April 3, 2019

In 2002 Jon Imber was awarded a fellowship by the Ballinglen Arts Foundation to spend time painting in Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland. In this rural setting he was confronted with sweeping green vistas, big skies, and a desire to push his approach to landscape painting in a new direction. He was also confronted with a cold and high fever upon arrival. Whether the fever was any influence, the landscapes he executed in Ireland were bold, abstract and gestural. There was a seeming quickness to them, and in retrospect …