Jon Measures is a professional Fine Artist, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and is currently a professor at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA. Jon is also a professor at other CA Colleges.
He started to exhibiting extensively in Los Angeles since 2006, by showing a series urban landscapes at The Harmony Gallery in Hollywood as framed digital prints. His art work is extremely unique and refreshing look into urban landscapes in CA, which interests me of urban sketching and photographic inspirations.
Jon developed his own approach to making mixed media artwork that often combine multiple views of Los Angeles and other urban areas, slicing and dicing bits of the city’s rich fabric together. The images are digitally edited photographs, printed then made in to collages that are then further worked as paintings. Paint is used to stylize or emphasize aspects of the photographic materials, to add texture, layering and color. The layering is an important aspect to the work both in the computer and on the physical artworks.This process is a hybrid between painting, photography, digital art and collage and echoes the layering of history that takes place in cities.
Jon explores our environment that show the structures, infrastructures and scars of human development. He is fascinated by the American West.The freeways, power plants, gas stations and fast food restaurants on the side of the road heading out to the desert or up the coast of California are at once so familiar and at the same time so alien. The systems and infrastructure that support our current unsustainable way of life; power lines, gasoline, cars are all rich in visual interest and powerful metaphors for our current way of life. Jon has found a source of inspiration to his fine art, which is often ignored by all commuters in vehicles, who are too busy to get from point A to point B, without ever looking outside beyond the vehicles windshield.
One page view into Jon's Galleries:
Enjoy his art and I recommend taking his college courses on Adobe Illustrator!
