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Jon Swindler

Jon Swindler
Position
Professor of Art
Academic Area
Printmaking and Book Arts
Office Hours
Mondays 11am–1pm
Location
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Main Art Building | Room S265D
Email
swindler@uga.edu
CV
Curriculum Vitae
Website
www.jonswindler.space
Research Focus

An essential by-product of my creative activity is an abundance of printed remnants, or visual leftovers. Accumulated failures, incidents and accidents (on paper) acquire involuntary visual connotations. Surfaces possessing this quality are continually re-printed or recycled, creating unforeseen visual phenomena and fluctuating conceptual circumstances. The natural condition of all printmaking processes is that of degradation, and it has traditionally been the printmaker’s job to control this trait (as long as possible). Within my studio practice I have sought to embrace this tendency rather than fight against it. It is in this and the other inherent qualities of the medium, namely, the mediation and accumulation of marks, as well as the transferal/reversal of information that provides both technical challenges and visual novelty.
Disparate sources for imagery and ideas yield disparate content. However, through my manipulation, that is my formal and material reaction, the disparate coalesces. Artmaking promotes shape shifting, thus enabling the freedom to flow between various disciplines, concepts and materials. Through art/printmaking, I always discover some new truth or narrative. Intuitive formal decisions impart or create meaning. I feel my role is that of a facilitator within a constant collaboration with the inanimate elements of print media. For me, printmaking is more than materials; it is a way of viewing the world. As a resident of a multi-layered world in which little is as it seems and information is coded (even when it’s not), printmaking is my decoder ring.

In the studio, the act of making (for me) is a contradictory one, at once highly systematic, yet randomized. Everything derived out of my creative production is considered relevant and nothing superfluous. The plates and prints I generate are regarded as components, not images. These components are combined to create naturally contrasting states of visual information; transitions of technique, mark, color and content that is born out of un-edited studio activity. Out of this process I seek to develop artworks, which feel by contrast calculated, intentional and well crafted.

Jon Swindler is a Professor of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. He holds a BFA in studio art and art education from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas and an MFA from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

Over the last several years he has exhibited his work in numerous solo, competitive and invitational exhibitions both nationally and internationally and has performed visiting artist workshops and lectures at various institutions, including: The Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, HDK School of Design and Craft in Dals Långed Sweden and the Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists in Edmonton, AB, Canada.

Mar 17, 2025
Aaron S. Coleman. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Kyle Mittan/University of Arizona

Lamar Dodd School of Art Welcomes 4 Visiting Artists this March

Aug 20, 2020
Associate Professor Jon Swindler is apprehensive about the fall semester. "There's just so much unknown still," he says. Elissa Nadworny/NPR

Professor Jon Swindler Interviewed by NPR

Feb 27, 2019
"This is what we were talking about". Jon Swindler

Associate Professor Jon Swindler Exhibiting at Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences

Feb 01, 2019
 Jon Swindler

Professor Jon Swindler Selected for SEC Faculty Travel Program

Jan 31, 2017

"I Swear I Saw This" Group Show at ATHICA Curated by Calway-Fagen

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  • "Locating Light" 2019, Installation w/ Mike McFalls, Dimensions Variable
  • "Locating Light" 2019, Installation w/ Mike McFalls, Dimensions Variable
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