About Android Jones
Integral Alchemy
Android Jones’ pictorial work is one strain of a larger project that
he calls “Electro-Mineralist Art.” Moving “beyond the traditional
organic vegetable and animal technologies of pencils, ink, and
brushes”, Android takes up emergent technologies that are
crystalline, metallic, electronic and digital in their materiality and
aesthetic feel, implicating a historical scheme that echoes the
integral view of planetary evolution from physiosphere to
biosphere to noosphere to theosphere; where the techno-media
of exhibition artworks have been by and large, as the artist says,
bound to or associated with the biologic. Android is classically
trained in academic drawing and painting and this traditional art
background is the foundation through which he bridges the
knowledge of the past and brings it into the future. For a
post-postmodern art of high noospheric and theospheric
expression, Android instead upgrades to more resonate
noospheric vehicles; where the crystalline or “mineralist”, proper
to the physiosphere, is recovered as a marginalized inorganic
principle for the artistic celebration of the energies of life.
The content of these marvellous works ranges vastly from the
cosmic to the micro, from tantric beloved to sacred civics, from
expansions of consciousness to reconfigurations of our three
bodies. The pictorial syntax is at the very least proper to a teal
register; a collage mode descending from synthetic cubism.
Subtle radiance and causal voids abound throughout.
Honouring the history of art, the mystical projects of the later Dali
come to mind, Android taps into pre-modern, modernist, and
post-modernist aesthetic idioms, advancing an Electro-Mineralist
Art as Integral Alchemy.
Michael Schwartz - January 2014
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