Peter C. Jones: Jungle Stories August 21, 2021 - October 16, 2021

Peter C. Jones: Jungle Stories

August 21, 2021 - October 16, 2021

Peter C. Jones’s Jungle Stories, an extraordinary, timely body of work, taps into the pulse of three jungles: The Cultivated Jungle, the Actual Jungle, and the Asphalt Jungle, all found along the Atlantic coasts of Rhode Island, Brazil, and Manhattan. With these three disparate Jungles, Jones has captured the essential elements of the wild and the cultivated, both at the mercy of the unpredictable nature of human behavior.

The Cultivated Jungle consists of photographs made in a spectacular garden room at John Gwynne and Mikel Folcarelli’s sublime Sakonnet Garden in coastal Rhode Island. Jones depicts the Actual Jungle in the coastal town of Una in Bahia, Brazil. The Asphalt Jungle, derived from quotes collected from Jones’s decades in Manhattan, capture the non-stop pulse of the city of ambition.

Laura Bidwell writes in the catalogue for Jungle Stories, “There is a line, a vein, a pulse that runs through everything. It can be seen through a leaf held up to the sun or just below the surface of the skin. Red, green, blue the veins. Green, yellow, red the earth. Sharpness and tenderness exist together. Plants reach and stretch. Words reach and touch.”

Gallery owner Kathy McCarver says of this work, " One of my favorite aspects of this work is the unprecedented luminosity of the plant materials that simultaneously function as precise graphic elements. It is a privilege to work with Peter and to host his third solo exhibition at KMR Arts.”

Peter C. Jones is a fine art photographer, documentary film director and producer, and author. Born and raised in New York City, he is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design where he spent his senior year studying privately with Harry Callahan. Jones’s work is included in numerous public and private collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The High Museum, The Transformer Station Collection, The Hermes Collection, and the Cleveland Clinic Collection.