Artist: Rappleye, Jon

Painter Jon Rappleye’s work recycles images from popular culture, art history, children’s books and his own imagination. He describes the work as “obsessive, combining pattern, images and text.” He explains, “my work is about exposure and a search for identity, a combination of abstract and representational modes form a fractured narrative.” Rappleye received a New Jersey Printmaking Fellowship from the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper in 2001. He was a resident at the MacDowell Colony in 1997-98. He has had several solo exhibitions of his work including the Miller Block Gallery, Boston and the Mosaic Gallery, Boise and has participated in many group exhibitions including the Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, ME and Artist in the Marketplace: Twentieth Annual Exhibition, Bronx Museum of Art, New York. Rappleye studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.