"Jonathon Blake"

Jonathon Blake explains that his paintings come from an intersubjective, communal spirit that has, at many times flowed out of or around a love of music, specifically psychedelia and improvisation. These are scenes which center around a principle of abundance, perhaps even excess: excess of feeling and emotion, excess of openness, and excess of receptivity to the surrounding world. It is this context that Blake's work grows out of and that is concretized in his paintings.

His works are, to put it succinctly, works of excess, but not negatively as in "excessive", but rather positively as in "abundant" or even yet, "teeming." Indeed, this is the idea of community. A number of disparate elements, often contradictory ones, that are assembled together to work towards unitary goals.

-Andrew Beckerman