Jon Gemma

Coventry, RI - United States

Bio: Jon Gemma has been a reclusive and creative individual for the greater part of his life. He was allowed the freedom to explore his inner life in his art and writing. He was also afforded the luxury of a negative thought. He is the published author of four books that dealt with the stigma of his mental illness in society. His books never reached a mainstream audience. He has another biography written under the guidance of his English Professor, which might serve people in a professional format.

He has an Associate Degree in Fine Arts from the Community College of Rhode Island. Jon made honors, but he never made friends. Without the proper connections in a group of his peers his art is simply biofeedback brain candy. He is presently the resident of an assisted living community where he has been institutionalized for his use of heavy drugs in the course of his life as a troubled young man. He does his time on the cross of the computer.

Artist Statement: Since I began making art as a child my personal interest in the arts was simply lighting the darkness of the void that I felt as an island in the universe. My childhood was filled with the trauma of my migraines and my imagination, which served as my only friend as I matured into adulthood. Spending most of my time alone I have always had an interest in near death, and the near death experience. The majority of my art is a world that I imagine in the darkness of the world that I live. Resolving my dreams and visions in the subjective reality of the unusual world within my own mind presents me with new and bizarre revelations when I dream in a room full of mirrors. My life in the creative process is so subjective worlds collide with objective reality.

I enjoy working with virtual environments because of the endless worlds that can be created in the inner space of the computer. The possibilities of endless combinations in the many mirrors of the mind is something that I base on the Winchester Mystery House, which was my own search for the grail. Plato and the Allegory of the Cave play an important part in reaching higher dimensions through my art in recognizing the fourth dimension. I left my studies in college with three dimensional design, which I found limiting. Reaching the light of the fourth dimension is my goal in waking to the light of a multidimensional universe. In the black hole of the near death experience we can witness the universe unfold outside the subjectivity of our personal schematic.

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All Sales are Donated to the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless, in honor and memory of my family. And to those that have passed beyond the painful illusion of this life. The road must mean something, or my life is simply absurd.

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