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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