Jon Sedor is a painter who lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. As an avid climber Sedor combines portraiture with landscape and seascape vistas that render traces of subjective likenesses that serve as personal attributes of athletic legends. The artist places memory over reality, leaving an expressive gesture that mediates the vestige of dangerous adventures, capturing a series of actions that are over within seconds.

Sedor works on a modest scale, with canvases measuring 22 by 30 inches, and uses a palette of five colors: black, blue, brown, orange and white. Together each painting traverses through land, water and sky conveying the iconic feats that each sportsman was known for. Malloyportrays the iconic face of Keith Malloy, a West Coast surfer who has combined his concern for the environment with his travels throughout the Pacific. Josh reflects a blue tunnel wave on the right with a faint representation of surfer Josh Garner. Two other pieces Dean and Aikaufeature portraits that float above cliffs and ocean, remembering the recent loss of Dean Potter and the legend of Eddie Aikau who was lost at sea in 1978.

In 2011 Jon Sedor graduated from Skidmore College located in Saratoga Springs, New York with a focus on graphics design and drawing. The artist continued his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before moving on to the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Upon returning to Cleveland, Ohio as a sponsored rock climber, Sedor established the Pebble Wrestler Collective that creates limited-run apparel designs and, in the future, climbing and surfing films. Annual proceeds are donated to at-risk youth and adaptive athlete non-profits.