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John Grande
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John Grande began his career as a professional Chromogenic printer at several high-end photo labs in New York City. During this time Grande printed for high end fashion, music and, fine art photographers such as Mick Rock, Miles Aldridge, Jack Pierson, Annie Leibovitz, Marc Baptiste, Gilles Bensimon and Jerry Schatzberg to name a few. This practice highly influenced his personal work, allowing him to study their compositions and visual techniques for creating a successful image.
Using photo reference to produce a photorealistic style with paint into a visual dialogue while constantly searching for different ways of solving contextual problems and ideas. Incorporating pop culture, branding symbols, advertising logos, superheroes, phrases and art. Grande weaves them together, transforming the original meanings and continuously adding to the vocabulary of art. His current work is about exploring “the cultural icon and the history of art,” he states, “my art comes from the history of art and the culture of our times. I am interested in building paintings that are derived out of today’s overwhelming multimedia world and, adding to the vocabulary of art.”
Grande has exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Korea, Italy, India, and …
John Grande began his career as a professional Chromogenic printer at several high-end photo labs in New York City. During this time Grande printed for high end fashion, music and, fine art photographers such as Mick Rock, Miles Aldridge, Jack Pierson, Annie Leibovitz, Marc Baptiste, Gilles Bensimon and Jerry Schatzberg to name a few. This practice highly influenced his personal work, allowing him to study their compositions and visual techniques for creating a successful image.
Using photo reference to produce a photorealistic style with paint into a visual dialogue while constantly searching for different ways of solving contextual problems and ideas. Incorporating pop culture, branding symbols, advertising logos, superheroes, phrases and art. Grande weaves them together, transforming the original meanings and continuously adding to the vocabulary of art. His current work is about exploring “the cultural icon and the history of art,” he states, “my art comes from the history of art and the culture of our times. I am interested in building paintings that are derived out of today’s overwhelming multimedia world and, adding to the vocabulary of art.”
Grande has exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Korea, Italy, India, and Canada, including solo shows at Jim Kempner Fine Arts, New York, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Shelter Island, New York, Cerasoli Gallery, Culver City, California, Engine Gallery, and Gallery Bibianne, Toronto.
Courtesy of the Artist's Site
Born 1969
Hometown Huntington, Long Island
Lives and Works New York, NY
Education
BA Fine Art Illustration, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 1995-98
AD Graphic Design, Suffolk Community College, New York, 1992-94
Works Available for Purchase
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