KALEID Gallery is proud to present a new series of paintings by resident artist Jonathan Crow.

I use a muted palette to create oil paintings that recall the vibrancy and optimism of America during the Cold War, reframed to reflect the anxiety and uncertainty of this current era. I draw inspiration from vintage snapshots culled from the 1950s through to the 1980s and use them in a way that creates compositional tension between positive and negative space.

I’m drawn to images that seem to be small parts of a larger narrative; images that raise more questions than they resolve. My paintings are fragments of mid-20th century suburban life where disaster seems to lurk just beyond the frame.

About the Artist:
Jonathan Crow creates images that combine symbols of American mid-century nostalgia, in particular the suburb, with today’s mood of anxiety and impending apocalypse. He spent much of his adult life working in the film industry before becoming an artist and cinema strongly influences his work.

Crow’s work Veeptopus, a series of watercolor portraits of every U.S. vice president with an octopus, was featured on BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, and the New York Times.

He has an MFA in filmmaking from the California Institute of the Arts.

KALEID is open for viewing this exhibit Fridays & Saturdays from August 7th to August 29th, 5pm–9pm.
Free admission.

We will have strict safety protocols including low capacity, social distancing and masks required at all times in the gallery.

KALEID gallery
320 S. 1st St.
downtown San Jose
info@kaleidgallery.com