Jon Taner

About the Artist

Abstraction has served me well and my attitude toward it has ripened to the point where it is not enough. It has a technical and formal quality that when purely nonobjective is difficult to read and absorb for many. It may have drama, energy, brilliant color, abandonment, and more. What has become most clear to me is that it is only a foundation for what I can intermingle and layer on top of it. Although he probably would vehemently deny it, Edward Hopper was, to my mind, a master in this regard. He depicted the subtleties of life itself, but upon closer investigation his paintings cannot be labeled as “just realism”. It is my intention to create something that is not “just abstraction”.