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The Brooklyn Rail, New York
March, 2023
Mary Jones: Les Problémes du Confort
By Tom McGlynn
Mary Jones’s newest paintings perpetuate the pas de deux she has previously choreographed between collaged and readymade photographic sources and bravura painterly passages. Her process typically integrates the two via a wide array of technical interventions, activating these elements into a series of staccato movements that refer to the aleatory nature of the “cut-up” but also to genealogies of expressionist painting. For her third exhibition at High Noon, she’s grouped the newest series of works in this mode under the heading Les Problémes du Confort.
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Whitehot Magazine, New York
October, 2020
A Scan Through The Canon: Mary Jones' Attachments at High Noon Gallery
By Andrew Paul Woolbright
An X-ray of a mouth, adhered to the top of the canvas, floats over a blossom of acrid nickel yellow. Revealed on the X-Ray acetate, a dental implant glows white; depicting a screw shooting upward into the gums, farther than you’d think it would. It makes me taste metal looking at it as I think of foreign insertions drilling deep into bone, metal pins and screws holding spines and joints together…
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The Brooklyn Rail, New York
November, 2020
Mary Jones: Attachments
By Hovey Brock
The intelligence of Mary Jones’s paintings—and they are fiercely intelligent—does not come from clever readings of conventions around painting, art history, language, or science, although those considerations do figure into her practice. Instead, Jones’s paintings are painstaking explorations of the disjunction between the world as it comes to us through our senses…
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DART International Magazine, New York
Februry 9, 2019
‘Travel Light’
By Christopher Hart Chambers
My father had a brain tumor. His little sister, my aunt Peg, also had an acoustic neuroma. Her’s went malignant and she died. The fifth neurosurgeon screwed a specially built helmet onto Dad’s skull to blast his growth with radiation from 360 degrees. It saved his life…
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artcritical, New York
Februry 7, 2019
Mary Jones: Travel Light at High Noon
By David Cohen
An equation of painting and flesh operates as an incorporated metaphor in this a group of new paintings by Mary Jones. In a series of “Renaissance Portraits” or in a work titled “Diana’s Beautiful Brain” X-ray images of…