$600 untitled (Red Barn) signed acrylic on paper 32.5" x 32.5"
$500 untitled (blue) signed monotype 25.5" x 39.5"
$500 untitled (yellow) signed monotype 25.5" x 39.5"
Jon Neuse (b. 1945)
Jon Neuse was born in 1945, raised in Southwest Texas, attended college in Chicago (BA in 1967) and served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan. From 1972 to 1990, he held management and training positions in hospitals and computer companies, and taught at universities and colleges. In 1990, he left a promising business career to pursue art full-time in the Twin Cities, following the completion of his Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Minnesota in 1988.
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Over the years, Neuse has taught art at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts, the University of Minnesota, Metropolitan State University, in the Minnesota Community and Technical College system, and at his studio. He has exhibited extensively in galleries, colleges, and universities in the United States, and his work is in numerous corporate, university, and museum collections.
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Neuse believes playfulness, experimentation, and judgment are the principles behind his art. He begins all work whimsically, not knowing exactly how it will look when it is finished. He then experiments to make the visual relationships taut and constantly judges if formal artistic elements are resolving themselves into lasting relationships.
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Neuse believes that it is difficult to make abstract art, because there are no - nor should there be - rules for how to proceed. He loves seeing a piece completed, but it is the process of reconciling the relationships between line, mass, color, value, and subject that intrigues him the most. His imagery is drawn from remembered experiences as he completes artwork in his studio, relying on memories of places and events.
Originally trained in painting, Neuse was introduced to monotype printing in the early 1980s by a colleague, and it quickly became a significant part of his work. He describes the creation of monotypes as a painting-printing process, created by first applying lithographic paint to a piece of plexiglass and then running the plexiglass through a press to create a paper print of the image.