Aimee Jones - Hidden in Plain Sight
She is a figurative painter whose work delves into themes of identity, feminism, and the female form, viewed through the lenses of trauma and personal experience as a woman. Through depictions of covered and uncovered female figures, her art explores the tension between invisibility and hyper-visibility, questioning what it means to exist outside constant observation and surveillance. Her work considers the potential power in a woman's agency when she is unseen. By constructing landscapes filled with desire and lust, she incorporates objects and plant forms that evoke pareidolia of the body, tapping into subconscious bodily desires and fetishes.
Her inspirations include the Victorian photographic genre known as “invisible mothers,” fashion magazine imagery and its portrayal of women, botanical forms, intricate patterns, and deeply personal experiences. The use of coverings and patterns in her paintings becomes a symbol of reclaiming subjectivity and ownership, while also functioning as protection or a barrier. With glimpses of exposed body parts emerging through fabrics and foliage, she challenges the viewer to confront the notion of the invisible existing in plain sight.
Aimee Jones (b. 1992) is a visual artist and educator currently working in St. Petersburg, Florida. She earned her BS in Advertising and Art & Design at Texas State University (2014) and earned her MFA and Graduate Certification in Women and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida (2022). She was granted the 2023 Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Grant, was a finalist for the Carlos Malamud Prize in 2022 and was a participant in the HANNAC Can Borni Residency in Barcelona, Spain in 2018. She will be attending a residency in Taos, New Mexico with Paseo Project in 2026.
Her recent solo exhibition Of Momentos and Fetishes was shown at Art Center Sarasota (2024). Exhibitions have included Skyway 2024 at the Tampa Contemporary Art Museum, Pen and Brush NYC (NY), Rollins Museum (FL), Creative Pinellas (FL), University of Central Florida, the Contemporary Art Museum of University of South Florida, and more. Her specialty is painting the human figure transformed in both domestic and botanical landscapes while researching feminist theory.
Currently, she is the Instructor of Visual Arts (Painting and Drawing) at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL.