Wes, 2019

Acrylic on foamboard w/ red transparent vellum

28 x 23 x 1 inches, framed

Fair Market Value: $1,200

Starting Bid: $840

Buy It Now: $1,800

ETHAN JONES is a middle school art teacher with a background in graphic design and illustration (working mainly in the music industry, creating album covers and tour merchandise for bands). He currently works in a variety of mediums including acrylic painting, printmaking, mixed-media collage, and pen and ink illustration. Jones has also written and illustrated a children's book, "The Art of the Bedtime," which was self-published and sold approximately 500 copies. The inspiration for his work is rooted in punk rock, album covers, skateboarding, and children's books. Most of the imagery Jones uses is an amalgamation of colorful scenes and characters that could belong in children's books, McDonaldland, horror/nightmares, and punk. Jones's work appears to be kid-friendly, but has very sinister undertones and strong elements of dark humor. Jones learned the basics of graphic design at the now-defunct, for-profit, joke of an art school, The Creative Center. Later, after playing in bands and touring around the US and Europe all through his twenties, Jones was a fine art major and received a bachelor's degree in art education from the University of Nebraska Omaha. His father was also a college art professor in Kansas (where Jones grew up) and Jones has been around art at galleries, museums, and at home for his entire life.