Spotlight Artist

Robert Sparrow Jones

Pacific Coast
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Featured in New American Paintings

Artist Statement

My paintings imagine futures where repair, joy, and dialogue shape our shared life. Working between landscape and constructed forms, I activate change by depicting regenerative systems; repaired soils, rewilded corridors, new spaces that invite civic action. One piece pursues happiness as communal pleasure: gardens, gatherings, and light as social currency. Another bridges the divide through layered imagery of crossing points; rivers, thresholds, translations, where differences meet and are reworked into common ground. Together, they propose a more perfect union: fragile, negotiated, and creative. The works are invitations to participate, to mend, celebrate, and converse toward a shared, livable future.

Artist's Additional works

Works shared by the artist outside of their featured New American Paintings selections

Oil on Canvas
A Tentative Journey - 2026Oil on Canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Oil on Canvas
The Swimmers - 2026Oil on Canvas, 60 x 48 inches

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Education

  • MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, US

Residencies

  • The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL, US
  • Residency Program, Deering Estate at Cutler, Miami, FL, US
  • Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, US
  • Can Serrat, El Bruc, B, ES
  • Artist in Residence, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, US
  • Artist in Residence, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, US
  • Artist in Residence, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, US

Solo Exhibitions

  • The Unknown, Raven, Nashville, TN, US
  • Landscape/Memory, Shunpike, Seattle, WA, US
  • A Sense of Place, Sands Gallery, Seattle, WA, US
  • The Uncertain Landscape, Jordan Faye Contempor-, Baltimore, MD, US
  • Ground to Sky, Ballardworks, Seattle, WA, US
  • The Seekers, Gallery Express, Savanna, GA, US

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