Chattahoochee Nature Center, Roswell, GA
I cannot remember a time when art-making did not engage me, soothe me, challenge me, and bring me joy.
I grew up in Atlanta, GA and studied art at Red Wall Art Studio (now Asa’s Alley) with Charlene Shikany and at Woodward Academy. This training gave me a firm foundation in figurative and realistic drawing and painting. I spent a formative semester as a junior in high school at The Oxbow School in Napa, CA. At Oxbow, under the tutelage of several gifted artists and where the studios were seldom closed, I learned new skills and had the freedom to explore abstract expression and to paint on a very large scale.
In the few years since attending Oxbow, I have honed my unique blend of colorist, emotive abstraction and abstracted realism during brief stints in Great Barrington, MA; Los Angeles, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; Sedona, AZ, and for the last two years in Flagstaff, AZ. I am a university student and a preschool assistant teacher and sneak artmaking in whenever I can. I believe that color and place—both the real places I have lived and visited and the fictional ones I imagine—exert the most influence on my recent work.
In addition to making and looking at art, I love to travel, cook, read fantasy and science fiction novels, watch movies, and spend time in nature. I am passionate about environmental protection and sustainability and about social justice and mental health issues.
The story of the 🔺— The red triangle is something I started doodling in middle school. Red is my favorite color, and I remembered as a very young child drawing triangles with a scarlet Crayola crayon (my forever favorite crayon) and being obsessed with perfecting the equilateral triangle. Once I remembered that determined 5-yr-old’s mission, I began to draw the red triangle at the bottom of any piece of paper, even exam pages, on which I had drawn or doodled. It became my signature. Now it is simply a part of my work, and I consciously locate it where it makes the best effect.
Collections
Chattahoochee Nature Center, Roswell, GA
Private Collections in Albany, GA; Albuquerque, NM; Alexandria, VA; Asheville, NC; Athens, GA; Atlanta, GA; Augusta, GA; Austen, TX; Boston, MA; Brevard, NC; Columbia, SC; Fayetteville, AR; Flagstaff, AZ; Katonah, NY; Newland, NC; Philadelphia, PA; Portland, OR; Redwood City, CA; Sedona, AZ; Washington, DC; West Boylston, MA; and Geneva, Switzerland
Exhibitions
“Spring Art Show” The Oxbow School, Napa, CA, Group Exhibition, May 2018
“Cody Jones, Roots” Asa’s Alley Art Studio, Atlanta, GA, Solo Exhibition, October-December, 2020
“the world that has been given,” Jason McCoy Gallery with Artsy.net, Online Group Exhibition, February 2021
“Cody Jones: Recent Paintings,” Firecreek Coffee, Flagstaff, AZ, May-July 2021
”Cody Jones: Featured Artist,” Bookmans Café, Flagstaff, AZ, April 2022
Cody Jones 