Jon Waldo (b. 1957) is a painter based in New York. He builds his paintings from hand-cut stencils of his own line drawings — tools, automobiles, electric fans, toys, household furnishings. Acrylic modeling paste is pushed through the stencils, leaving raised relief lines against flatly painted color underneath. The palette stays bright and limited, set off by black, white, or silver. The subjects are ordinary, the treatment plain. Waldo's longstanding interest in Transcendentalist thought — Emerson, Thoreau — along with Buddhist and Hindu philosophy, runs through the work as a quiet insistence on the everyday. The paintings carry the bold flatness of 1970s album-cover design, without the irony that usually comes attached to it. Waldo has shown at Linda Warren Projects in Chicago, Wave Hill's Glyndor Gallery in the Bronx, Columbia University School of the Arts, DFN Gallery in New York, and the Queens Theater in the Park Galleries, among other venues. His work has been written about in Art & Antiques and The Brooklyn Rail.