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2009 Exhibitions:
Life Journey and Motion
July 18 - October 4, 2009
Opening Reception: July 31, 7-9 PM
Life Journey Motion book sales
Triton Museum
1505 Warburton Ave.
Santa Clara, CA 95050
Phone: 408-247-3754
Fax: 408-247-3796
Going North
August 14 - October 30, 2009
Opening Reception: August 27, 5-9 PM
Eddie Rhodes Gallery
Contra Costa College
2600 Mission Bell Drive
San Pablo, CA 94806
along with 23 sculptors from the Bay area will be shown on site
for one year.
"Prelude to Sprite in Motion".
Stone and Earth installation
18 x 30 ft
June 14 & 15, 2008
14th Annual Sculpture In The Garden Show
The Ruth Bancroft Garden,Walnut Creek CA
March 27 - June 20, 2008
Sponsored by Artscape.
Sculpture @ The Atrium
600 Townsend, San Francisco CA
Gallery hours: M-F 9am-6pm
THE DAILY REVIEWFriday, October 10, 1986
"Works evoke images of crumbling antiquity"
By Martha Kennelly, Correspondent
Breathless from trundling a wheelbarrow full of cobblestones,
sculptor Patricia Bengtson-Jones straightens her back and rubs
the sweat from her forehead. Nearby lay the long handled spade
she used to cut strips of turf to install on of her site-specific works
in the front lawn of Haywards Sun Gallery. Aided by a collaborator,
Dana Chodzko, Jones is constructing "Hadrian's Corner."
Translation: She's creating the appearance of an ancient monument,
a corner of some acient building emerging after centuries of being
buriend underground. " The pressures of time working from
underneath are forcing it up through the grass, out of the earth"
she explains...Inside the gallery, her six small bronzes, patinated
to suggest age, stand on pedestals. Fragmentary like the site
sculpture, their classic columns lean in disrepair, marble shards
scattered nearby...I'm very interested in people of past civilizations
and cultures -- and that's what I'm depicting."
Temple Ruins of Matter"
Marble and Sandstone
8" x 10.5" x 15.5"
1979
41 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
September 8 - October 17, 1987
Patricia Bengtson Jones' ruins have architectural order, but the age of elements disarrange the balance. This is what attracts her to the form.
She uses concepts of prehistoric monumental stone sites she located in 1979 and 1980 in England and Italy. She likes to express to others her own relationship to these historic primal forms of sculpture.
Patricia uses monolithic forms and stacking or layering to denote time past, while working with the elements (earth, water, sun and stone) to bring unityto the work of art. Also, she searches to achieve that which continues to lure the scientist, the traveller and the artist to various parts of the globe In their endless search to shed some light on the unexplained phenomena of past cultures.
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| "Stack Time" Italian Marble, 73" x 17" x 16" 1985 |
CIVIC ART ASSOCIATION/CIVIC ARTS GALLERY
1641 Locust Street, Walnut Creek, CA 94596
STONE
Nine Northern California Sculptors
September 5 through October 20, 1985
Pat Jones' use of monolithic forms and stacking or layering denote
times past and reflect "the influence of prehistoric, monumental
stone sites visited in England and Italy." Her work has been shown
in one-prson and group exhibitions in the Bay Area and in Europe.
Jones received her B.A. and M.A. from San Jose State University,
and has also studied in Italy. She currently lives and works in Berkeley.
Thursday, October 27, 1983
DATEBOOK
100 S.F. Artists Open Up Their Studios
ART
Thomas Albright
..Patricia Bengtson Jones, whose studio is in the old brewery off the railroad tracks at the end of (155) Florida Street, is a sculptor who works primarily with marble. Sometimes she stacks flat, irregular, flagstone-like pieces of marble and cement, their surfaces inscribed with "personal signs," into slender vertical columns. Her more effective works occupy pedestals, carved in classical forms, and comprise chunky blocks of raw, unpolished stone in relationships that suggest miniature ruins...
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Walnut Creek, CA 1988
Women in Metal and Stone
Unusual Materials Mark Exhibit of Six Sculptors' Work
by Carol Fowler, Art Critic
.Patricia Bengtson Jones contrasts polished planes and natural stone surfaces in her stone sculptures which look like Japanese Zen temples or grdens. working in Carrara marble, Virginia soapstone and dental plaster, she may cut a small starway into one side of the piece that leads to a polished surface inset with contrasting rocks. A large, white floor piece is a simple pyramidal form of contrasting surfaces. The smaller "Plaza of Villa Di Leo" is more Japanese than Italian, and wonderfully elegant...
Sunday, February 19, 1989
Stone Sculptures Demonstrate Skill
By Merrill Schleler
..Patricia Bengtson-Jones' sculptures simulate monuments. Carved to imitate weathered stone, her works stand as archeological remnants of cultures past. Clearly, Bengtson-Jones associates marble with the high points of civilization, now ravaged by time. In "Historic Fragments," she connects diverse eroded slabs with coarse plaster, which threaten to come unglued, suggesting that even mightly stone can crumble into dust...
Sculpture in Public Places
Patricia Bengtson Jones' ruins have
architectural order, but the age of elements
disarrange the balance. This is what attracts
her to the form. She uses concepts of
prehistoric monumental stone sites she
located in 1979 and 1980 in England and Italy.
She likes to express to others her own
relationship to these historic primal forms
of sculpture. Patricia uses monolithic forms
and stacking or layering to denote time past,
while working with the elements (earth, water,
sun and stone) to bring unity to the work of art.
Also, she searches to achieve that which
continues to lure the scientist, the traveller
and the artist to various parts of the globe.
In their endless search to shed some light on
the unexplained phenomena of past cultures.
Ritual of Todi Dumo
Carara Marble
28" x 8" x 6.75"
1989
Patricia Bengtson Jones
1996-2002
spirit of motion. I use monolithic
forms, arches, and stacking or
layering to denote time past, while
working with the elements
(earth, water, sun) and stone to
bring unity.
"What interests me is prehistory - what cannot be known. I believe my function as an artist is to recall that which is unspoken, whether it is a sense of history, unconscious form, or social justice."
P. Bengtson Jones, D. Chodzko;
Photo: De Jones
bamboo and earth, accompanied by all the traditions and associations inherent in them.
Earth is the basic substance for shelter, labor and nourishment common to all people, in all places
throughout time.
I have been influenced by the reductive arrangement of objects in minimalism, and by the life force
embodied in the organic environment of earthworks. Geome-try is a constant, enabling the work
to settle in somewhere between the worlds ofmind and nature. -
Dana Chodzko
Perfect balance and order bring a spirit of motion. Ruins have architectural order, but the age of
the elements disarrange the balance. Using concepts of prehistoric monumental stone sites located
in England and Italy, I express to others my own relationship to these historic primal forms of sculpture.
I use monolithic forms and stacking or layering to denote time past while working with the elements
(earth, water, sun) and stone to bring unity to the work. I seek to achieve that which continues to
lure the scientist, the traveler and the artist to various parts of the globe in their endless
search to shed some light on the unexplained phenomena of past cultures: the movement from the
cultures, earth itself, the reality I'm not alone.
Patricia Bengtson Jones