studio photo by Nikki Sargent

Contact: jonnyfenix@mac.com

Jonny Fenix was born Jonathan Smith in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1973, and currently lives in Portland Oregon. He walks with his daughters and wife and wonders why mankind isn’t. Why is man’s push to extinguish rudely everything natural?

Perhaps it is imaginary but he doesn’t fit in. Uncomfortable when there are others around. Parking garages are torture, he prefers to eat cake in bed and lie awake dreaming. His painted imagery to him is the truth. This sea’s not full of fish, but trash.

In the world he is living in this time, there are religious leaders fucking children. The poor fighting rich wars. Big trucks being driven by small minds. Mouths flapping saying nothing. People shitting on curbs, dying in the street and long glossy legs leading nowhere. Musicians elected from fat couches. To him the cricket in the kitchen is far more admirable.

Maybe he’s always been this way. Quietly screaming. From neither school nor the streets, he spent his boyhood in the desserts of Arizona thinking to himself, “this looks like the bottom of the ocean”. Researching everywhere, he attempts to create what his mind sees. Artwork, furniture, sculpture, letters to friends, they are the same and loaded. Soft but Sharp. Pretty and Painful. To say nothing is not possible.

His work has shown in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Portland, New York and San Francisco. There were ants in each of these cities busy. 

   *LINKS, to smart people i'm happy to know*

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2009 "Swing the Door Wide" Leo Kesting Gallery, NYC

http://www.vimeo.com/5399731

  • 2009 "A Time For Lions" A Duo show with BLAKE BRITTON at Nemo Design, Portland Oregon

http://vimeo.com/4017500

  • 2008 "The Show Up" Leo Kesting Gallery, NYC
  • 2007 “Blue Sky (if you close your eye) ” A Duo show with STEVE ELLIS, Capla Kesting Fine Art, NYC
  • 2007 “Los Angeles I Am Thinking of Leaving You” Groundworks on Traction Ave. L.A.
  • 2007 “Sometimes Again” Groundworks on Main Street, L.A.
  • 2006 “Conversations With My Parents” Groundworks on Traction Ave. L.A.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2010 "Dog's In School" Screaming Sky Gallery, Portland
  • 2009 "Print Heavy" N.O.M.A.D. Gallery, L.A.
  • 2009 " Mixed Metaphors and Obsessive Compulsive Behavior" Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco
  • 2009 "Fountain Exhibit New York" Leo Kesting Gallery, NYC
  • 2009 "All That Glitters is Gold", McCaig Welles, Brooklyn
  • 2008 "The Effect! A Pop Art Blast" James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia
  • 2008 "Grand Opening" Leo Kesting Gallery, NYC
  • 2007 "Home For The Holidays" Leo Kesting Gallery, NYC
  • 2007 "Guild of the Black Eagle III" David Hochbaum’s Studio, NYC
  • 2007 "Let's Kill God" Maude Carin Gallery, L.A.
  • 2007 "Fountain Exhibit Miami" Capla Kesting Fine Art, NYC, in Miami
  • 2007 “Tall Totem Pole” 1269 Gallery, L.A.
  • 2007 “Fountain Exhibit Chicago” with Capla Kesting Fine Art of NYC, in Chicago
  • 2007 “2007 Preview Show” Capla Kesting Fine Art, NYC
  • 2007 “Fountain Exhibit New York” Capla Kesting Fine Art, NYC, in New York
  • 2006 “Fountain Exhibit Miami” Capla Kesting Fine Art, NYC, in Miami
  • 2006 “Sunset and St. Marks” Capla Kesting Fine Art of NYC in L.A.
  • 2006 “The 1st and Hope Exhibition” Berra’s Skate Park, L.A.
  • 2006 “Jail Wedding” Maria Mars Gallery, L.A.
  • 2006 “Woo, Art the World” Woo Private Gallery, L.A.
  • 2006 “Sunset and St. Marks” Capla Kesting Fine Art of NYC, in NYC
  • 2006 “Guild of The Black Eagle 2” David Hochbaum’s Studio, NYC
  • 2006 “Keep Is What It Is” 1269 Gallery, L.A.
  • 2005 “What Are You Looking At.” 1269 Gallery, L.A.
  • 2004 “The Fascist Who Stole Christmas” 33 1/3 Gallery, L.A.
  • 2003 “The Fascist Who Stole Christmas” 33 1/3 Gallery, L.A.