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The paintings of Robert Jones, a long time art professor at the University of Washington, now retired, epitomize the concerns of the Abstract Expressionist movement. In his work there is a sense of immediacy, a feeling that one is not only a witness to the finished work but to the act of painting that led to the completed artwork. This is an improvisation, an oil painting, using color and line, plane geometry, circles and tangents, but it may suggest a landscape, a building, a machine, or a human figure. –Artist statement