Is a Hungarian-born American artist
She lives and works in San Francisco, CA

She synthesizes links between her roots in European education, her adopted country’s conceptual and minimalist art, and the significance she found in works of her Japanese contemporaries. Varnay Jones’ primary concern and challenge is the process of distilling her experience into optical and sensual form. Her meditation on the ambiguity of vision and perception fluctuates between three-dimensional objects and flat surfaces. She aims at demonstrating relationships, recontextualizing their position, and revealing connections between seemingly unlike things. Her method is to develop an idea in never precisely the same way.

Theodora Varnay Jones’ multimedia works in drawing, sculpture, photography, and installations echo her reverence for process and material while evoking an open-ended range of concepts from perception to relativity, transparency, and time.

Her works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States, Central America, Japan, and Europe. They can be found in major private and public collections around the world including The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA, Berkeley Art Museum, CA, Iris & Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, CA, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, Morgan and Betty Flagg Collection, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose, Costa Rica, National Biblioteca de Catalunya, Spain, The Janet Turner Print Museum, CA, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, Kyoto Seika University, Japan, and Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest