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Jon Legere (born June 22, 1978) is an American artist and producer who works in digital, sculpture, photography, drawing and painting. His early works are sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1999 and 2002 he primarily worked with digital and video and was part of a collaborative installation TURNS which was installed at the Whitney Biennial 2002 with Margot Lovejoy, Marek Walczack and Hal Eager. http://whitney.org/www/2002biennial/pre-posthsBi2002a.pdf'

Life and Career
Jon Legere was born June 22, 1978, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He lived in Bermuda from 1983 to 1996, where he attended elementary, middle, and high school. His mother is a native Bermudian ballerina and his father an American computer salesman. In 2000, he graduated from Purchase College (SUNY). In the early 2000s Legere moved back to Bermuda and was a High School Art Teacher at his former highschool Mount Saint Agnes Academy. http://www.msa.bm/ Shortly afterward he took a job as a graphic designer and web developer for Bermuda advertising agency Aardvark Communications.

In 2004 he broke out and started his own graphic design studio LAVA Visual Boutique+ with creative partner Megan Pittman. They quickly won major local accounts and raised the level of design communication island wide with innovative digital solutions. Following the success of the LAVA Legere started another venture Volcanic Productions, an event specific company which threw several large scale events a year and acted as a on island production company for film and photo shoots in Bermuda between events. Volcanic became the premier event company for alternative parties focusing on music and art with their annual halloween flagship "Fright Night" at Fort Hamilton Bermuda. There biggest turnout was a promotional stunt for Red Bull where Volcanic hired a 100 foot steal barge, loaded with the islands largest sound system and docked the barge in the center of the annual Non-Mariners race in Mangrove Bay. Local artists supported by The Home Grown Band and headliner Collie Buddz performed on the stage to an aquatic mosh pit of over 6000 persons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI5fRzdVqCA&noredirect=1

In 2008 Legere decided to move back to New York City to be closer to the creative connections that he had developed and focus on his artwork. In 2009 Jon took a job at Galapagos Art Space as the marketing director where we he rebranded several of the premier events including the famous Floating Kabarette http://www.yelp.com/biz/galapagos-art-space-brooklyn-2 and Kunsthalle Galapagos Art Space. http://kunsthallegalapagos.com/kunsthalle-galapagos/about/ In late 2010 Jon was offered to become a Producer for advertsing firm Rokkan, a global leader in digital production. http://rokkan.com/ Here he launched award winning campaigns for global clients Bethesda Softworks, Chipotle, Ford, Nintendo, 2K Games and Dell.

Works
Crucifixion (2001) Legere has always explored contradictions with global belief systems and religious dogma. In 2001 as part of a video performance Legere created a series of 20 abstract video vignettes that could be accessed from a centrally installed kiosk at the Purchase College (SUNY) campus. The central video was recorded on Good Friday 2001 and followed Legere building his own crucifix, attaching it to a used car and driving to a construction site on the university grounds. There he hoisted the cross to the top of the hill, dug a whole and cemented the cross in place. With the help of fellow students was attached to the cross and stayed there for twelve hours.

TURNS (2002)

Jock Art (2002–present) The ongoing drawing and painting series began in 2002 as a series of studio experiments with abstract colour and form. A complete release from the designa digital world that Legere was operating in on a daily basis Jock Art was intended to be mindless executions of physical strength and bright colours.