Otis Jones — Continuum

Chinatown, New York

Otis Jones

Continuum

Marc Straus

17 July – 6 September 2026

The gallery is proud to present Continuum, an exhibition of ten signature wall works by the late artist Otis Jones (1946–2025). Opening July 17, 2026, at the gallery's 299 Grand Street location, the exhibition gathers a concentrated selection of works that reveal the enduring force of Jones's singular vision; a practice rooted in labor, intuition, and the slow accumulation of meaning. Otis Jones made paintings that seem to exist outside of time. They resist the velocity of contemporary looking. They ask for something increasingly rare: patience. Standing before them, one becomes aware of duration; not simply the time required to make them, but the time embedded within them. Every surface carries evidence of decisions made and unmade, of gestures buried beneath subsequent gestures, of materials pushed toward a state of quiet inevitability. Otis Jones (1946–2025) lived and worked in Dallas, TX. Devoid of pictorial motifs, narratives, and at times even color, the work of Otis Jones was muted yet intensely physical and stubbornly original. Shunning the grandiose, Jones’ interests lay in the most basic essentials: the relationship of form, composition, and color, and the subtle nuances that gave his paintings marvelous character.

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