“Proving that post-minimalists too can have soul is painter Mitch Jones. The human factor in Jones’ abstract Rhyme and Rhythm paintings emanates from the collage elements that he resurrects and re-contextualizes: handwritten sheets from old ledger books, newspaper articles, and illustrated pages from ancient books with steel engravings. He cuts these faded documents so that they become illegible, or rotates them and pastes them into strips suggesting handwriting, or into columns, alternating the monochrome elements with blocks of pure oil paint, which Jones likens to doors or windows, citing the traditional metaphors for pictorial space. From a distance, we read the works as abstractions, or mysteriously coded data; up close, we discern that these “dynamic visual symphonies,” to use the artist-musician’s words, are built of scraps of human history."