A fundraising collaboration providing vital support to refugees and displaced people worldwideWaiting for You (2024)
Edition of 75
12 Colour Screenprint with Satin and Gloss Varnish on Somerset Velvet White 300gsm. Produced by Counter Studio, Margate.
76 x 60 cm (29.9 x 23.6 in)
Signed, numbered and dated by the artist
A third of profits from the sale of each print will benefit Choose Love.
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Jon Key graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design BA and MA Design Research, Criticism and Writing from School of Visual Arts. Jon currently teaches at Cooper Union. Key is the Co-Founder Codify Art, a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of colour, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of colour.
Key’s work has been exhibited with Steve Turner LA, Carl Freedman Gallery, Jeffrey Deitch NY and included in personal and institutional collections including Yale University, AIEVA Institute, The Dean Collection, The Watson Library collection at The Met, the Columbus Museum, RISD Special Collection, and the Schomburg Center. Key’s work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic. He was selected for Forbes 30 under 30 Art and Style list for 2020 and was the Frank Staton Chair in Graphic Design at Cooper Union 2018-2019. He recently was awarded Black Visionaries Grant Impact Award from the Brooklyn Museum.
Jon Key, along with six other international artists, were asked to create a print for Choose Love. A third of the profits from the sale of each print will be benefit Choose Love – providing vital support to refugees and displaced people worldwide.
Key's work excavates the lineage and history of his identity through intersecting themes of: Southernness, Blackness, Queerness, and Family. Borrowing from design history and principles, Key contorted hard lined figures are brushed with family histories reflected in Polka Dots and plaids across the surface of his works.
For this new print, Waiting for You (2024), edition of 75, Key depicts a figure sitting at a table that’s fashioned off a café in Margate and he’s waiting for someone to join him. The figure in the print is a character of the artist himself, the man in the violet suit. This print has been created using Key signature limited colour palette and patterns which are inspired by his own personal stories, histories and memories.
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A fundraising collaboration providing vital support to refugees and displaced people worldwide
