“I focus on everyday actions, experiences, and behaviors. Representing people engaged in seemingly quotidian activities allows me to abstract those activities while meditating upon them, making them strange. We are bombarded with so many images. I paint images of people undergoing or retreating from bombardment (sleeping or on a mobile phone). There is engagement with the contemporary world and simultaneously there is a rejection of it by my subjects and, by association, me.”

KB Jones studied art and philosophy at Columbia University and lived and worked in New York City before receiving her MFA from the University of New Mexico this past May. She has recently completed projects with the Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, SITE Santa Fe, and High Desert Test Sites.