SAMUEL LEVI JONES

For the past eight years Samuel Levi Jones has been using books ranging from encyclopedia, law, history, and medical in his artwork references struggles of power.  The paintings he creates from this material are visually abstract.  The subject matter of a given book material is used to reference these struggles.  

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With the work 48 Portraits (Underexposed), Samuel Levi Jones is creating a dialogue about the work 48 Portraits by Gerhard Richter, which was created in 1972 and features all famous white men, painted from portraits featured in Encyclopedia Britannica. For his work, Jones gathered Encyclopedia Britannicas from the same year used by Richter, and turned the pages into paper pulp, and then printed portraits of African Americans who he feels should have been featured in the encyclopedia using only black ink, to create underexposed images. This is a double entendre for being physically underexposed as well as underexposed in history.

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PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 2024

FILMED ON LOCATION AT DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART IN DALLAS, TX​

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