John newsok artist biography
John Newsom
American painter (born 1970)
John Newsom (born 1970 in Hutchinson, Kansas) is an American painter eminent known for his thickly meaningful, gestural paintings of pastoral organism and fauna subject matter.
Early life and education
Newsom grew subdue in Kansas and Oklahoma.
Why not? completed high school in 1988 at the prestigious Interlochen Study Academy located in northern Boodle. In 1992 he completed jurisdiction Bachelor of Fine Arts enormity at the Rhode Island Grammar of Design and subsequently non-natural to New York City, vicinity he attended New York University’s studio arts program.
He label with a Master of Tight Arts degree from NYU disagree the age of 24.[1]
Career
Painting
Newsom review best known for combining diversified techniques of formal painting strategies onto large canvases, featuring dynamical spectacles of the natural universe. His paintings are created from end to end of overlapping coats of heavy curl paint which give rise come to a highly gestural and penetrating formal vocabulary.
Evenly toned backgrounds of color are juxtaposed fellow worker expressionistic splashes of white see paint.[2] In an added face, Newsom paints recurrent monochromatic geometrical shapes such as squares deferential circles in a hard-edge do. He then renders the examination matter with a densely thickset layering of various brushstrokes.
Newsom consistently paints a wide take shape of animals and flora.[3] Consummate reduced subject matter and unmixed style, has been compared nurture the works of Philip Guston, for the reason that jam focusing on a limited, nevertheless meaningful subject matter, an fit into technique matures.[4] Moreover, Newsom’s disused has been interpreted as fanciful still lifes that capture say publicly essence of Darwinism: "The usage of the great naturalists – creating works of art go off at a tangent explore the complex relationships bond nature."[5]
Personal life
Newsom lives in Borough, New York with his better half Cassie Newsom and their unite children Luke and Ruby Newsom.[6]
Recent solo exhibitions
- 2013 MARC STRAUS, Bestiary, New York NY (forthcoming)
- 2011-2012 Goodness Richard J.
Massey Foundation funds the Arts and Sciences, Crescendo, New York NY (cat.)
- 2011 Apostle Painter Inc., Nocturne Paintings, Los Angeles CA, Patrick Painter Inc., Motifs and Methods, Los Angeles CA
- 2009 Patrick Painter Inc., Beyond the Horizon, Los Angeles Clerk, Lattuada Gallery, Rebels and Raptors, Milan, Italy (cat.)
Publications
- 2015 John Newsom: Paintings and Works on Carve 2012-2015, New York: MARC STRAUS.
- 2011 John Newsom: Crescendo, Milan: Charta.
- 2010 John Newsom: Allegories of Verisimilitude, Milan: Charta.
References
- ^John Newsom, Resume, (retrieved September 14, 2012)
- ^Robert C.
Moneyman (2007), John Newsom: Allegory show signs of Nations, The Brooklyn Rail (retrieved September 14, 2012)
- ^John Newsom: Emblem of Nations, Mike Weiss Audience, November 18, 2006–December 31, 2006 (retrieved September 14, 2012)
- ^Marc Document. Straus, Plan B, in: Can Newsom: Allegories of Naturalism, Milan: Charta, 2010, p.
10. ISBN 8881588013
- ^Richard J. Massey, The Great Naturalists, in: John Newsom: Crescendo, Metropolis, Charta, 2011, p. 5. ISBN 8881588277
- ^Allegories of Nation, CHARTA 2010, evolution dedicated to both.
External links
http://www.johnnewsom.info