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Anthony (Tony) Jordan was born in Washington, D.C. and moved to
the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area in the late sixties. Educated
in the public school system of Philadelphia, PA and Willingboro
NJ, Tony demonstrated artistic ability, but as a youngster, did
not pursue any formal training.
As a teenager, Tony experimented with different forms of creativity,
including visual as well as written expression. Anthony created
many works of art which were given to his family, friends and
sometimes strangers.
As a young adult, his interest in cars pulled him away from painting
pieces of art and propelled him into the automotive field where
he worked as his father's auto body shop as a "paint man"
and finisher. Currently, Tony is employed in his father's body
shop.; Tony's interests in art was renewed during a season of
emotional upheaval. It was during this period of internal and
personal struggle
that he truly considered his natural creative ability as a gift
from God. Committed to developing his gift, Tony began to write
and draw. In his art work, Tony began to explore mediums other
than "oil".
Consequently, Tony developed a penchant for working with charcoal
and
pastels as well as colored pencil. Tony chooses charcoal because
"it permits me to fully consider the range of black to white,
while feeling the images that comes to mind, while pastels infuse
color which open a vulnerability to softness, allowing
the heart to be hooked".
Tony feel s that working with colored pencil creates a vibrancy
that is strong, full of drama, frolic, or "just that feeling
of matter of fact". About his art, Tony states "My interests
and my thoughts are diverse and my work reflects this. My drawings
are subjective, objective, fluid, discrete, static and seeped
in the emotions of my past, present, and future too". About
his gift, Tony says "I feel passion, humility and great joy.
The images contained in my soul is my gift. The transformations
from my soul to canvass or page is His Gift, a grant from He,
whose All-Knowing permits me to share a part of my soul and my
vision. Because of He, an artist I became".
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