David Jones is the Founder and Director of Anchor Graphics. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he moved to the Midwest to pursue studies in photography and printmaking. He attended the Center for Photographic Studies, Louisville; Banff Centre for the Arts; the Vancouver School of Art; received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, and is currently pursuing his MFA at the Center for Book and Paper Arts. He has taught printmaking at the Chicago Art Institute and at Columbia College Chicago, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis and the Board of Directors of Southern Graphics Council International. He was Interim Director at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NYC.

His work has evolved over a fascination and participation with the California Car Culture. His early experiences with building engines, taking and documenting road trips, photographing junkyards and now drawing on paper, bring the images and memories full circle. He states: “Through excess consumption we are filling our places with broken machines, with dysfunctional cogs and wheels. I see the drawings as a metaphor for our own relationship with things, filling up space, entangling our lives and in time breaking down and decaying.”

His work has been included in numerous exhibits in Chicago, Mexico, and throughout the U.S.  Upcoming shows include a two-person exhibit at Moreau Galleries, St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN, and LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, NYC.