tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11950740421962444752009-10-17T11:21:04.893-07:00The paintings sketches and Ideas of Jonah Roll jonahsart, printmaking hawihawaii alawai harbor projectartaud pomes paintings sanfrancisco Warrenroll animationJonah Rollnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1195074042196244475.post-69947437507330412452009-06-10T10:05:00.001-07:002009-06-10T18:58:04.637-07:00<div class="blogger-post-footer">Jonahs Art<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1195074042196244475-6994743750733041245?l=jonahsart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jonah Rollnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1195074042196244475.post-57427267366830653412009-04-15T05:43:00.001-07:002009-04-15T05:44:20.454-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c9NYbsO6P0k/SeXWlfRr65I/AAAAAAAAAuY/53bh5PjG8rY/s1600-h/the-boat-man-copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c9NYbsO6P0k/SeXWlfRr65I/AAAAAAAAAuY/53bh5PjG8rY/s400/the-boat-man-copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324898073974664082" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Jonahs Art<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1195074042196244475-5742726736683065341?l=jonahsart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jonah Rollnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1195074042196244475.post-19253744286621329622009-01-30T17:02:00.000-08:002009-02-16T20:59:56.779-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c9NYbsO6P0k/SZpCMuAUcXI/AAAAAAAAAt4/s8DsCPN7q3o/s1600-h/jonah-and-the-whale.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c9NYbsO6P0k/SZpCMuAUcXI/AAAAAAAAAt4/s8DsCPN7q3o/s400/jonah-and-the-whale.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303624297457414514" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jonah with the skeleton of a whale at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Photo Fuentes Eye<br /></span><br /><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Jonah Roll was born and raised on 45-foot sailboat, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">The Flying Walrus</span>, in Honolulu, Hawaii. At the age of 12, he moved to the Big Island, where the mythology and natural world of Hawaii saturated his formative mind. Since then, he has used painting as a means of surviving his childhood in paradise. In 1989, Roll received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland,.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Influenced by his watery beginnings and his wanderings in Latin America, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Roll's</span> work takes the viewer on a journey to surreal destinations, suffused with imagery <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">imbedded</span> in an original and stylized reality, that is often peopled with characters that range from the grotesque to the majestic. He has created several artworks for the public <a href="http://www.artaud.org/499/mural-17th-st.html">http://www.artaud.org/499/mural-17th-st.html </a>and many of his pieces are included in private collections. His work has been exhibited in Hawaii; Portland; Seattle; San Francisco; Santa Cruz; Washington, D.C.; and New York.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Recent works can be seen on display every year during San Francisco's Open Studios. Jonah is an artist-in-residence at Project <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Artaud</span> <a href="http://www.artaud.org/">http://www.artaud.org/</a> , a San Francisco-based artists' community.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Jonahs Art<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1195074042196244475-1925374428662132962?l=jonahsart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jonah Rollnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1195074042196244475.post-79529887361776511292008-01-31T18:20:00.001-08:002008-02-25T10:37:12.425-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_c9NYbsO6P0k/R8MKu8CHbYI/AAAAAAAAAW0/dYm64cyifgY/s1600-h/jonah1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_c9NYbsO6P0k/R8MKu8CHbYI/AAAAAAAAAW0/dYm64cyifgY/s400/jonah1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170988598656724354" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_c9NYbsO6P0k/R6KB6ub375I/AAAAAAAAATc/Mo7sg_eQmQQ/s1600-h/flying-saucer-copy.jpg"><br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Jonahs Art<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1195074042196244475-7952988736177651129?l=jonahsart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jonah Rollnoreply@blogger.com0