The Artist: John was born in 1963, is from New York, and has also lived in San Francisco, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and New Orleans. He began playing jazz trumpet at age nine, became a teenage bassist, started composing songs, developed a vocal style, and formed a psychedelic rock trio named Product. After years of touring and recording, the position of “leader” grew to be mostly “logistics and diplomacy” and not enough “creative artist”. John then turned his attention to painting. He preferred the creative independence and self-efficiency that was absent in the music industry. He creates his paintings in layers, much like music, like producing a record. Product has been creating visual art for over twenty years.

From the Artist: “ I make art that I crave, I create pictures that I need to see. They all start with a single playful stroke, intuition is allowed and encouraged to lead the way…somewhere in the middle a story suggests itself…many layers leading to a result not pre-determined. Thousands of decisions later the work nears completion, order and chaos become balanced, the push/pull vibration of the colors smiling in active harmony.”

About the Artist: Influenced by Francis Bacon, Igor Stravinsky, Jackson Pollack, Bela Bartok, and Willem de Kooning, his art combines Abstract Expressionist gestures with South American color and forms. The landscape is filled with birds, angels, and hybrid figures swimming in seas of fertile color. The presence of tribal-like drawings in an abstract setting combines aspects of ancient and modern resulting in an infinite dimension of time. His paintings are animate objects, always growing and building on concepts. They are not linear with a definite and final conclusion. John views his paintings as catalysts to his viewer’s potential for creative response. “ They are like organic living tales… or mirrors that reflect your personal internal changes, sometimes even pushing back a little , urging you on, or into, or through, the infinitely many partly overlapping universal non existant picture theory portal.