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John Blanco

Artist Statement

My works are challenging due to their slow evolution, absurd presence, and unseen quality. Resembling elements of Conceptual Art, Performance, and Sculpture, I exhibit the influences of Social Activism, Printed Matter, Natural Sciences and Technology. At the point of overlap among multiple categories, a dynamic voice is invented. I create new contemplative experiences that often use discarded materials. By collecting the aesthetic substrate, this process permits my exploration of a re-imagined thing. An objects meaning is researched, observed, practiced, ignored, and momentarily isolated from its prescribed context, in order to be inserted in a new. I am then a composer of potentials.

 

Artist Biography

I am a part of the new creative class. I am recognized as an Activist, Dancer, Educator, Gardener, Imagination Officer, and Social Entrepreneur. However defined, my practices are described as whimsical, courageous, and authentic. I received my BFA in Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. After leaving SFAI, I served as Artist Assistant for Clare Rojas and Barry McGee, and as an Arts Teacher working inside San Francisco's Youth Guidance Center with adjudicated youth. In late Spring 2008, I began a cross-country cycling adventure, completing 2000 miles and later arrived in New York City to conclude my summer 2008 Artist in Residence at Le Petit Versailles Community Garden. Presently I live and work in Brooklyn, New York.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


John Blanco

355 South 2nd Steet #2D

Brooklyn, NY  11211

(513) 720-9455

 

Solo Exhibitions:

 

                  2008          In the shadow of a butterfly

Le Petit Versailles

Community Garden

                                    New York NY

 

                                   As she breathe the shadow, get free

                                    aLittleDisplay Gallery

                                    New York NY

 

2006          You can do it gently

                                    New Langton Arts

                                    San Francisco CA

 

                  2002          A New Partner Lost

                                   San Francisco Art Institute

                                    San Francisco CA

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

 

            2008          The Prison Project

                                    Intersection for the Arts

                                    San Francisco CA

 

                                   100 Performances for the Hole

                                    The Garage Biennale

                                    San Francisco CA

 

                                    City of Kindness

                                    Atlas CafŽ

                                    San Francisco CA

 

            2006          Art Boomerang

                                    Semantics                 

                                    Cincinnati OH

 

2005          Being Sensible

                                    Studio 222

                  San Francisco CA

 

2004         When Words Become Actions

Galeria de la Raza

San Francisco CA

 

                                  Westside Stitches Couture Club

                                    Junction Arts Festival

                                    Toronto Canada

                                                                       

                                    Black Market Auction

                                    Independent School of Art

                                    San Francisco CA

 

                                    For Landscape

                                    Queens Nails Annex

                                    San Francisco CA

 

                  2003          Friends Forever

                                    Diego Rivera Gallery,

                                    San Francisco CA

 

                  Shadow Boxing

                                    Luggage Store Annex

                                    San Francisco CA

 

                                    Performance de Ritual

                                   Instituto de Superior Arte

                                    Havana Cuba

 

                                    Out of Line

                                    Stanford Univ. Art Gallery

                                    Palo Alto CA

 

 

Dance Projects:

 

2007          Gnome Trouble

                 West Wave Dance Festival

Project Artaud Theater

Choreographer Catherine Galasso

San Francisco CA

 

Frames of Mind

Stream Fest

Counter Pulse

Choreographer Catherine Galasso

                  San Francisco CA

 

White Rice

Castro Street Fair

San Francisco CA

 

 

Collaborative Community Art Projects:

 

            2008          Plain Human

Art & Activism addressing

Prison Industrial Complex

                                    San Francisco CA

 

                  2007          When We Touch

Affection

                                    Funke Fired Arts

                                    Cincinnati  OH

 

2004          Where You Would Go

                                    Out of Step Gallery

                                    Cincinnati OH

 

 

Curatorial Projects:

                 

2006          Gently she whispered, ÒMagic.Ó     

The Garage Biennale, Pavilion 6

                                    San Francisco CA

 

                  2005          Dream Blankets

                                    aLittleDisplay Gallery

                                    San Francisco CA

 

                 Fortune Teller & The Collector

                                    aLittleDisplay Gallery

                                    San Francisco CA

 

 

 

 

Honors Received:

 

2006        Nominee for Visions      

                from the New California project

                                  The Alliance of Artists

                                  Communities

 

2005        Student Leadership Award                        

                                  San Francisco Art Institute

 

2001          Presidential Merit

Scholarship                 

                                    San Francisco Art Institute

 

 

 

 

 

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