Jonathan Quinn
Jon was the first real artist i met after moving to nyc's east village in 1983. he was a graduate of sva and tight with some of the group material art crowd and the fleshtones music scene. (new fleshtones book just out!!!) he put me in my first nyc art show. a one nighter group show he was putting together at club 57. jon was a conceptual painter then. he used painted pictures of the sea/sky as a symbol of dialectics. he soon moved into photography and film. we just spoke over the phone after a long hiatus. hes currently working on a masters in film history (i think thats what he said). pls look through his current photographic artworks "water." they are a great continuation of his painted work from the 80's and his film writing is quite good too. i brought him up to date with some of our mutual friends he hasnt seen in a while. he says hi.
i just word searched "Quinn" and JQ is all over that fleshtones book. the first chapter is available for reading at the link above.
I love the photos, thanks for the link.
i saw many a fleshtones show, it was the first post dead band i loved, butt then came the SURFERS:>)
We saw them in Portland Oregon (as you know Bill,) except it wasn't 'The Fleshtones' it was 'Fleshtones' or maybe 'Fleshtone,' which was a totally different thing and not worth seeing at all.
fleshtone - heh heh
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Jon was the first real artist i met after moving to nyc's east village in 1983. he was a graduate of sva and tight with some of the group material art crowd and the fleshtones music scene. (new fleshtones book just out!!!) he put me in my first nyc art show. a one nighter group show he was putting together at club 57. jon was a conceptual painter then. he used painted pictures of the sea/sky as a symbol of dialectics. he soon moved into photography and film. we just spoke over the phone after a long hiatus. hes currently working on a masters in film history (i think thats what he said). pls look through his current photographic artworks "water." they are a great continuation of his painted work from the 80's and his film writing is quite good too. i brought him up to date with some of our mutual friends he hasnt seen in a while. he says hi.
- bill 9-26-2007 10:45 pm
i just word searched "Quinn" and JQ is all over that fleshtones book. the first chapter is available for reading at the link above.
- bill 9-26-2007 11:30 pm [add a comment]
I love the photos, thanks for the link.
- L.M. 9-26-2007 11:53 pm [add a comment]
i saw many a fleshtones show, it was the first post dead band i loved, butt then came the SURFERS:>)
- Skinny 9-27-2007 4:47 pm [add a comment]
We saw them in Portland Oregon (as you know Bill,) except it wasn't 'The Fleshtones' it was 'Fleshtones' or maybe 'Fleshtone,' which was a totally different thing and not worth seeing at all.
- jim 9-27-2007 6:27 pm [add a comment]
fleshtone - heh heh
- bill 9-28-2007 7:31 pm [add a comment]