J. R. Jones

.R. (James Richard) Jones (1950- )

American Artist and Photographer. Jones has been known as a staff photographer for the Tulsa World, adjunct professor at Tulsa University, president of Lightshed Photography and a freelance photographer. Jones was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he grew to love and appreciate art by expression through photography. During the 1980s, Jones created visual amazement capturing movement of light at different intervals, reflecting the image in different forms, shapes and colors through photography as painting with light. His paintings with light have produced several portfolios and editions. First Wave Portfolio: Painting with Light (December 7, 1984), Tumbling Ice Portfolio (October 8, 1987) and Fall from the Void (1988- 80 original Polaroids, 8x10). Jones started his expression of art through sculpture in1996. Sculptures are monumental in size.

Exhibitions are extensive including but not limited to : Gallery Fiser – Hradec Kralove, Czechoslovakia: Delio Gallery – Prague; Tiffany’s – New York City; French Government, Paris; Variant Gallery-Taos, New Mexico; Philbrook Museum of Art-Tulsa, Oklahoma; MADoran Gallery-Tulsa, Oklahoma.