Kelly Lynn Jones | A deep love, fear, respect and hate

Kelly Lynn Jones 
A deep love, fear, respect and hate, 2025
Oil, oil pastel, modeling paste on linen
14.5 x 9.5 in.

Kelly Lynn Jones is an artist living in Los Angeles, CA. As immersive paintings built for “long views,” Jones’ finds joy in technical challenges regarding color, texture, scale, and perspectival shifts that discover uncanny moments in figurative narrativity. Rendered as 8x10 studies then scaled up with acrylic and oil paint, these are exercises in mapping objective correlatives: what’s important in the moment, and why? While some semi-autobiographical details are included, the paintings live more in symbolic realms if taken from the Greek, symballein “to throw together,” which suggests combining worlds to render invisibility. Natural symbols, private symbols, and conventional symbols complicate Jones’ landscapes of memory that seize and concentrate potentially lost moments.

- Excerpt from an essay by Trinie Dalton for “Love Letter” solo show at The Pit, Los Angeles 2022