Jon Poblador (b. 1971 in Quezon City, the Philippines) is a Filipino American contemporary painter best known for minimalist works characterized by monochromes, repetitions, and mark-making. Having received both BFA (Northern Illinois University) and MFA (University of Pennsylvania) in the US, Poblador has always lived a nomadic life including in the Philippines, Singapore, America, China and Hong Kong. Initially, much of Poblador's works consisted of tightly packed lines of text before evolving to dots, triangles, rectangles, and eventually the grid system he primarily produces today. His paintings are the 'accumulations' of his devotional acts by painting on the individual grid sections with thin acrylic layers. The grid system empowers him to paint repetitively, with each gesture of brushstroke representing his silent prayers and devotions towards the art itself. Moreover, Poblador usually strips down his choices of color palette. The timelessness of primary colors, together with black and white, neutralizes the audience’s viewership of his works free from direct interpretations. Poblador resides in Hong Kong and is active in the contemporary art scenes in the city and the US, where he's had several solo shows at Larry Becker Contemporary Art in Pennsylvania, Gebert Contemporary in Arizona, and Galerie Koo in Hong Kong.

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Jon Poblador

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Jackson Lake, 2019

Acrylic on linen over panel

76 x 61 cm

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