Artist

Jon Booker

Jon Booker was born in sunny Southern California in 1977. He first began drawing when he was four. His father a very talented musician, opened his ears to music, which became his first passion. His uncle, another talented man inspired Jon with his art. Well ahead of his time Paul Booker experimented with a variety of artistic techniques, everything from photography, water colors, oils, to experimental abstract painting. Towards his later years Paul began an experiment with enamels that changed Jons life. Jon used his motivation from his uncle and created a new style based off what he grew up seeing. Where his uncles pieces ended with arranged statements and expressions of color, Jons are just beginning, and the foregrounds that are added contain a variety of mediums that both titillate and tantalize the eye with the stark differences of his sustained intensity and mad color schemes, formally known as his "Release Technique". Early in Jons life came one of a new nature for him, travel. His mother re-married and then relocated his sister and himself to a small, but affluent town in Israel, outside of Tel Aviv. He attended an exclusive school that began to invest time and interest in his drawings, while his family began to respect his unique skill. Jon also began traveling the Middle East and Europe, seeing some of the worlds most historic and beautiful pieces and places of art. Each of these places held another fascinating type of art that Jon began to notice and appreciate; Graffiti. After returning to the US Jon moved to San Francisco for a year, then Seattle for six, and New York for two, you could say he was definitely exposed to plenty of spray can art. This form of cultural expression and art deeply affected the way Jon used to see his uncles canvases. Jon felt it was necessary to mix his passion of abstract art, with his new passion for Graffiti, and then let both collide together in an abstract thought process on either wood or canvas. In the early nineties found Jon a new identity, Slie. Now with a knowledge of letters and color from studying Graffiti, and a developed abstract thought process from his abstract paintings.
Jon currently resides in Glendale Ca.

View opening night photos from Jon's Current show "Release Therapy"

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