FSU Art BFA ’16 Todd Jones is a finalist for the Circle Foundation for the Arts (CFA) Artist of the Month Contest for February/March 2021. Twelve finalists were selected out of 685 participating artists worldwide, representing almost all the visual arts disciplines. As a finalist, he was also invited for a short interview published on the CFA website.
My art explores how material culture and transformative labor impacts the environment by blurring the boundaries between contemporary painting and sculpture.
Mr. Jones received his BFA with a double major in Studio Art and Psychology from Florida State University. He is currently living and working in Athens, Ohio, and is an MFA candidate in Painting + Drawing at Ohio University. He has been an artist-in-residence at Studio 209 in Thomasville, Georgia, and attended the Summer Painting and Sculpture Intensive at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has had solo exhibitions at Wild Goose Creative and the City Center Gallery at the Urban Arts Space in Columbus, Ohio.