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Philip Mallory Jones has worked with video, film, photography, and writing for artistic, commercial, and scholarly endeavors since 1969, and has incorporated digital media since 1990. His work has been broadcast and presented in international exhibitions in North America, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, Africa, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. He was cofounder and Director of Ithaca Video Projects (1971–84), one of the pioneering media arts centers, and Director/Curator of the Annual Ithaca Video Festival (1975–84), the first juried touring collection of video art. In 1989, he curated and premiered ICONO NEGRO: The Black Aesthetic in Video Art, at the Long Beach Museum of Art. Between 1991–2000, Mr. Jones was Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for Studies in the Arts, at Arizona State University. He was the Batza Distinguished Scholar in Art and Art History, at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 2002–03. Mr. Jones is currently the Resident Artist at the Center for African-American Archival Preservation, and Creative Director for Alchemy Media and Marketing, Inc., in Atlanta, GA.

His work has been supported by the American Film Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship Program, the National Black Programming Consortium, the Television Laboratory at WNET/13, the Smithsonian Institution, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Independent Television Service, Cornell University, Columbia College at Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the American Center in Paris, Arizona State University, The Arizona Commission for the Arts, Colgate University, and others.

Mr. Jones’s art portfolio includes LISSEN HERE! (2004), a book of poetry and photo-collage, plus film animations, video, interactive digital disc-based works, multimedia installations, and performances, which are held in private and institutional collections, and exhibited internationally. His digital paintings have been exhibited at the St. Francis University Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO (2001), the @ Central Gallery, Phoenix, AZ (2002), the Clifford Gallery, Colgate University (2003), the Fenimore Museum of Art, Cooperstown, NY (2003), The Substation, Singapore (2003), the Rochester Contemporary Gallery, Rochester, NY (2003), Penn State University Art Gallery (2004), and are held in private and institutional collections in the US and Europe. Mr. Jones has also written fiction and essays, and created sculptures in polyester resin.

Currently, Mr. Jones is creating set designs and projection imagery for The Vo-Du Macbeth, an original musical theater production, which will premiere in March 2005.

Mr. Jones’s academic credentials include an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University (1971), and a BA from Beloit College (1969). He was Senior Lecturer, College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University (1991-2000), and Assistant Professor on the Film/TV/Radio faculties of the State University of New York at Fredonia (1990), Howard University (1987–89), and Ithaca College (1984–87).

DIGITAL PAINTINGS by Philip Mallory Jones
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Memories of paths I’ve walked, stories I’ve been told, and the dream-places I inhabit are the sources for this series of digital paintings. Combining digital collage and paint, to visualize African-American allegories, from the archive of my images, myth, and memory.

Invocation
The Sisterhood has assembled. The ritual is in progress. The Novice is tentative. (Page 2).

Crossing Over
The Initiate joins the Sisterhood. The final transformation. (Page 15).

The Cleansing
She seeks the Way down many paths. (Page 28).

Dream of Distant Shores
The dreams of the boy become the experience of the man, and with it, perspective. (Page 41).

Points of View
The Social Worker visits Miss Emma’s house. (Page 53).

Sunday at Uncle Ivo’s
An imagined memory, from my youth on the Chicago South Side. (Page 67).

Bus Stop at the Edge of Town
The moment one steps off the bus at a new place, all possibilities for good and bad experiences are present, and...