Statement

AT FIVE YEARS OLD I WAS TAKEN TO AN ART EXHBIT AT OUR CHURCH IN COLUMBUS WHERE I REALIZED I WAS TO BE AN ARTIST AND WAS ONE IN PREVIOUS LIVES. When we moved to Ohio where my dad was hired. They sold my piano and after arriving they signed me up for oil painting classes at the N. Center rec center for oil painting lessons. I also taught diving lessons at the same place By high school I was selling my art and Scholastic Merit Award and scholarship. It was to the Art Students League of NY and won several more to others. I took the one to University of N Colorado. I had many shows, awards, and publications in my 5.5 years there. Later after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree I went back to Metro State college to support my family. There I studied Structural Engineering in order to get my Architecture Engineering degree and almost switched to Physics. During this time I worked for the Rio Grande RR.

I have always been in love with the organic, Fibinacci like, colors, shapes, patterns and textures in all that is organic and from nature. I love the busy mathematic structures within them. Due to having a disoder called Telecinetic Sinisinsia, I can hear art, see and smell music, smell colors, and I see mathematical equations, derivatives, ratios, theories, and history of anything I look at. I am highly influenced by gardening at Denver Urban Gardens and use the photos to create digital art, flower arrangements, and portraits, some of which I take commissions for. I also create vases and sculptures from PVC and various colored lights. Everything I learned about color theory, composition and the golden ratio are applied to my works. I also have great access to the Ackashic record with answers to anything I ask of it.

My biggest influences Are Hans Hoffman and his "push- pull theory" of composition, Frank Stella, Robert Motherwell, Phillip Guston,Michael Hedges, Lanny Qualles, Trudy Sessions,( Facebook friends, Dali, Picasso, Merrill Mahaffy, Jim Wade, Mark Chamberlain, Mark Rosenquist, and Mark Motherbough from Devo, In college I was told to write a term paper about artists whose work I hated. I chose Marc Chagall, and Paul Klee. After much studying I grew to love them too..

My latest series are created to be a balance of chaos and order with an intense color schemes and flow continuites to keep the eyes moving and bursting within a chaos of shapes, colors texyures and textures in order to keep the viewers eyes attacked by the composition as if to be a hundred ring circus of repetitive color, texture, and a composition that flows off the canvas and into your mind. Like music there is more to hear or see than what is perceived. I always need music to create art as the variation and repetition influences my art. Music and art are the same thing to different senses My musical influences are The Grateful Dead, Santana, Tom Waits, any folk music, blues, chants like Bangalon, Gospel. and Jazz. I try to do large works since they have more visual impact. I use a contrasting color schemes to intensify the affect. My art should make people want to dance due to its rhythm and mathematics.

I also do political art due to the political disaster called MAGA and put them on Facebook constantly, in order to help bring our democracy back to sanity. The racism, stupidity, lies, projection, and science denial is out. of control.

I was told last year that my prices were too low so I raised them again and suddenly got much interest from all over the world. Now I can afford to complete the many works in the process.

I am still producing and selling my works and have started a new series of innovative light sculptures, collages, and paintings and digital art.

Please contact me on Artwork Archives if you see anything that you like or want to purchase. John Puntenney