Steven Jones

Steven Jones was born in 1952 in San Francisco. He received his B.A. in fine art in 1974 and his M.F.A. in 1981 from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His work has been exhibited at the Chicago Botanic Gardens, Glencoe, Illinois, and the Galerie Jean-Pierre Lavigne, Paris. He has been a painting instructor at Southern Illinois University and at Lake Forest College, Illinois. His still-life paintings draw on the tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch painting, going beyond mere accumulations of objects to function as social commentaries.

*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.

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