John

Whitlock

John Whitlock is a renowned artist and renaissance man. His work seamlessly maneuvers between several mediums including collage, painting, music, and design. In his compositions we catch glimpses of a dismantled world reconfigured in an off-kiltered geometric landscape, where mountains are turned on their side balanced by soft-colors and paper triangles. Over the last few years, John has begun exploring artworks that contain charcoal, oil pastels, cut canvas, and thread.

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Familiarity through abstraction. My work is about transformation and the reframing of the familiar. Ordinary images take on an ambiguous meaning when stripped of their context and resurfaced into new, kaleidoscopic form. Like a distant memory presenting itself in a déjà vu, the aim is to evoke implied, but equivocal narrative through abstraction. The current work starts with small, noir-like collages that are reproduced as large-scale charcoal drawings, and further transformed as cut works for both canvas and paper. Built up through improvised layers of acrylic paint, charcoal, cut canvas and paper, the resulting compositions are both formalist and representational, structured and chaotic.

John Whitlock

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John Whitlock was born in 1979 in Brooklyn, New York, where he still lives today.

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