Mixed Media

Three canvas triptych flowing movement of geometric shapes in various colors. Painting has textured sand mixed into the movement of shapes. Sold in a set of three. Canvases are not framed.

Jonas Gerard is a self-taught painter. He was born on African continent in Casablanca, Morocco in 1941, to parents of French and Brazilian ancestry. He began his artistic career on the streets of New York City and spent many decades in the Miami area. Jonas is a self-styled spontaneous abstract expressionist painter. The rhythmic influence of music is an important part of his artistic process. Many of his paintings were created listening to the loud, vibrant Afro-Cuban rhythms he grew to love in Miami. The Moroccan tribal music of his childhood and the propulsive jazz of his early Greenwich Village days, mixed with French café music and Brazilian sambas can also be heard coming from his studio late into the night. The music allows him to work unpredictably and intuitively, kicking it into another mode and bringing it home to a subconscious space where he can respond to the rhythm, and the direction the paintings suggest to him.

H 72 in. x W 42 in. x D 1.5 in.

H 72 in. x W 126 in. x D 1.5 in.