About John

Baltimore City
I have produced art, consistently, since childhood. I found academic art education very rewarding, and have also greatly valued my years of post-academic creative production.
Ranging in all manners of theory and content, I have always been prolific.
I'm working on a grand sensibility which will unite my productions in all media. 
All technical finitudes within all media are affecting my narrative process and all in conjunction with the "existentialism" involved.more

Multi-Paradigmatic Painting : A Retrospective

I continue painting, though video is key, and I am currently digitizing all of my older analogue audio recording (largely for integration into video). "Multi-paradigmatic" is crucial to my entire outlook, in terms of any or all media. This idea is that any one artistically theoretical approach has its strengths, and possibly its weaknesses.

By revisiting works oveworks over time, in part, and  more generally by being cognizant to multiple approaches, always, I hope to produce work that transcends the limitations of any one theoretical approach. Rather than rejecting content, for instance, in favor of any one approach to form, or optics, I would like to have all these assets at my disposal, reflected in my final results, though any one wave of activity may energetically emphasize one focus, or a few.


I hope, always, to flesh out this breadth, fairly flamboyantly, while retaining elegance that may be appreciated "simply".
  • Between Two Valleys
    "Between Two Valleys"
  • Fabulous Mithra
    "Fabulous Mithra"
  • Eternal Rome
    "Eternal Rome"
  • Puella, Somnium
    "Puella, Somnium"
  • The Moment
    "The Moment"
  • The Second Pastoral
    "The Second Pastoral"
  • Studies From Rembrandt
    "Studies From Rembrandt"
  • Strange Eurasian Twilight
    "Strange Eurasian Twilight"
  • La Vierge (in displaced context)
    "La Vierge (in displaced context)"
    An element of the "multi-paradigmatic", here, is that the painting's backdrop, the rooftop, the antenna, are traces of the painting when I'd been taking it in another direction. Then I set in with the Virgin Mary, with whatever symbolism, seen in bipolar terms relative to the abstract peculiarity around her. I like the power of this duality. Then, with the flat and non-polar aesthetics of the drab antenna, I set the moral drama aside, while also maxing out on it. I want all these things to serve, interactively and simultaneously, as conceptual springboards, with a result which makes the most of both forethought and whim.
  • « La réalité des ténèbres, la synthèse »
    « La réalité des ténèbres, la synthèse »

The Ianto Trilogy

These are my first novel-length literary endeavors . . . I am currently working on a piece of dystopian fiction called "In The Shadows Of Nationalism".

Post-Digital Photography

Digitally re-treated photography
  • « La voiture »
    « La voiture »
  • « En hiver »
    « En hiver »
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    greatswampmontagered,plus
  • « Le cuivre vert au ciel »
    « Le cuivre vert au ciel »
  • « Jeanne d’Arc turquoise »
    « Jeanne d’Arc turquoise »
  • « La Vierge I »
    « La Vierge I »
  • « La Vierge II »
    « La Vierge II »
  • « Jeanne d’Arc obscure »
    « Jeanne d’Arc obscure »

Studies of Downtown Baltimore

This is a group of photos, taken exclusively in Downtown Baltimore, which emphasizes a particular aesthetic, largely one of sleek modernity and great volume, shown predominantly on clear and sunny days. (I have other photos which were also taken in Downtown Baltimore, but which are of another aesthetic.)
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  • The Macht Building
    "The Macht Building"

The Figure, Fragmented, Painterly

  • Keltic Madonna (portrait)
    "Keltic Madonna (portrait)"
  • Keltic Madonna (neck)
    "Keltic Madonna (neck)"
  • Keltic Madonna (breasts)
    "Keltic Madonna (breasts)"
  • Thin Woman In Black portrait detail #1
    Thin Woman In Black portrait detail #1
  • Thin Woman In Black portrait detail #2
    Thin Woman In Black portrait detail #2
  • Thin Woman In Black portrait detail #3
    Thin Woman In Black portrait detail #3