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One of Nneka Jones’ goals before she graduates in 2020 is to do a portrait of UT President Ronald Vaughn. Having just captured the emerging artist award at the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, she might be one step closer to her goal.“I’d like to have my artwork in the school. It’s on my bucket list,” said Jones, a fine arts major with a concentration in printmaking and painting and a minor in marketing.
Nneka Jones ’20 won the William P. O’Dowd Memorial Emerging Artist Award at the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts the first weekend in March.
This painting, "Colorism," is mixed media on canvas (oil and a clear gloss/tint).
"My art is very narrative as well, so faces, expressions and emotions help with communicating a story or evoking emotions, " said Jones. This "Self Portrait" is oil on canvas.
"Self Portrait II" is one of Jones’ experimental painting projects of the theme, "creating a painting without paint."
This painting, "Target," was one Jones exhibited at the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts. It’s mixed media where she did the painting over condoms to bring awareness to sex trafficking.
Jones wrote about this piece, called "The Power of Words," on her Instagram blog, "Here are some close up shots of the painting and my attempt to paint flesh (skin) through plastic. ALSOOO!!! My attempt to paint words as if they were written with sharpie marker." It’s in a similar style to the pieces by Professor Chris Valle that inspired Jones.
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