A native New Orleanian, Jonny Coleman is a painter/collager and gallerist. After launching Found Gallery (formerly the Orphanage Gallery) with John Schwartz in Silverlake in 2006, he curates, co-manages/co-owns, and continues to paint obsessively.

Coleman is currently juggling several collaborative efforts and working on several new bodies of work concurrently, consequently driving him mad, meanwhile preparing for the launch of an LA-NY art zine (http://www.artrant.com) which he will edit.

Jonny Coleman studied film production and studio arts at the University of Southern California, and has since been involved in several short films/music vidoes and has been commissioned to storyboard several films (including West Bank Story and mostly projects that aren’t too worthwhile). His crude style typically wasn’t appropriate for storyboards, but he carries over conventional narrative sequencing (or implied) into his paintings and collages.

Jonny’s work is typically leaning towards indefinite narrative and symbolism, figuring the viewer’s imagination is better than or equal to his own, so he invites the audience to connect his suggestive dots. He used Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper as the direct inspiration for a solo show in 2006 and is coordinating a large scale, long distance art project between several artists based on a friend’s children’s book.

Jonny invites you to visit his outlets (Found Gallery, myspace.com/foundla, the newly relaunched Joint Custody Project Blog, the No Performance Blog, and JonnyCs Flickr) and leave feedback. On deck for Coleman: a tribute to American sports, a post-apocalyptic ode to Eddie Furlong, and breaking in his airbrush.