|
|
|
|
John Sebastian
Paintings
2000 - 2014
Prince Love
2007
Mixed Medium
Baby Crib Panel
Sold: Private Collection
Love Letters From Russia #1
2007
Canvas 48 x 72
Mixed Medium
Sold: Douglas Elliman
2007
Canvas 48 x 72
Mixed Medium
Sold: Douglas Elliman
Love Letters From Russia #2
2007
Canvas 24" x 32"
Mixed Medium
Sold: Private Collection
2007
Canvas 24" x 32"
Mixed Medium
Sold: Private Collection
The human mind and condition fascinates me.
The bodies that house the mind the heart and the soul fascinate me.
I have spent a lifetime studying body movement facial expression and spiritual intent in hopes of gaining some port of entry to every individual I come in contact with, to explain (mostly to myself) why we do what we do and why evolution within our species seems to be taking so long.
Interactions with each other and our environments, with the elements of nature and the creatures we share the planet with intrigue me to no end. Just when I thought I may have found an answer I am pleasantly and sometimes unpleasantly surprised to find that I may have been wrong or lead to another path of understanding and must rethink my whole approach.
Supernatural occurrences, things that go bump in the night and the power we have within us which lays dormant within most either unintentionally or intentionally can send a chill straight up my spine. The power of the female and her dominance over the male will keep my mind occupied for years and years to come. Her shape and form and true beauty astounds me and her capacity to create life can sometimes fry my brain like bacon and eggs. Art in all its forms and genres have captivated my world and I dedicate myself and my life to it.
Through art we can explain the explainable.
Words visual impressions and physical and spiritual interactions consume us and through these experiences we will hopefully live a full and whole life. There are those who choose to live smaller more quiet existences and those of us who live a more grandiose existence. Our need to judge and gauge - compare and compete - succeed and fail and succeed from our failures, this is the human condition and experience. This is what my art and life revolve around all of the above plus some. Magic in metaphors and the poetry of the universe are my compass and ruler and the earth and the creatures on it are preferred subject to study and measure.
The bodies that house the mind the heart and the soul fascinate me.
I have spent a lifetime studying body movement facial expression and spiritual intent in hopes of gaining some port of entry to every individual I come in contact with, to explain (mostly to myself) why we do what we do and why evolution within our species seems to be taking so long.
Interactions with each other and our environments, with the elements of nature and the creatures we share the planet with intrigue me to no end. Just when I thought I may have found an answer I am pleasantly and sometimes unpleasantly surprised to find that I may have been wrong or lead to another path of understanding and must rethink my whole approach.
Supernatural occurrences, things that go bump in the night and the power we have within us which lays dormant within most either unintentionally or intentionally can send a chill straight up my spine. The power of the female and her dominance over the male will keep my mind occupied for years and years to come. Her shape and form and true beauty astounds me and her capacity to create life can sometimes fry my brain like bacon and eggs. Art in all its forms and genres have captivated my world and I dedicate myself and my life to it.
Through art we can explain the explainable.
Words visual impressions and physical and spiritual interactions consume us and through these experiences we will hopefully live a full and whole life. There are those who choose to live smaller more quiet existences and those of us who live a more grandiose existence. Our need to judge and gauge - compare and compete - succeed and fail and succeed from our failures, this is the human condition and experience. This is what my art and life revolve around all of the above plus some. Magic in metaphors and the poetry of the universe are my compass and ruler and the earth and the creatures on it are preferred subject to study and measure.
Self Portrait
2009
Kitchen Cabinet Door
36" x "46
Mixed Medium
One Boy
2010
Canvas 26" x "36
Mixed Medium
Collage
Sold: Private Collection
Untitled
2010
Canvas "36 x "48
Sold Private Collection
Candy Rabbits
2011
Canvas "46 x "48
Mixed Medium
Angels
2004
Canvas "86 x "92
Sold : Private Collection
Acrylic
John Sebastian was born in Long Island - New York, in 1974.
He was raised in a family infused by generations of artists and craftsmen. Luthiers, Carpenters, Draftsman,
Engineers, and Musicians.
His father played a major role is his artistic career, a Korean war veteran, studio musician (guitar being his main instrument), mathematician and metallurgist by trade.
In a very large family, John grew up spending holidays first listening to his uncles and father playing classic swing music and jazz and eventually taught himself how to play guitar and joining in.
John brings music to his art in all its forms,
Self-taught John Sebastian has spent years perfecting several different disciplines of painting and drawing but stays within the parameters of abstract expressionism and impressionism.
Keeping in mind his unique and original styles of painting in series - Sebastian has veered away from traditional art academia and has instead acquired an approach to painting that retains hints of his favorite American modern contemporary painting masters, Paul Klee, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko and of course Gerhard Richter who he most likens his work to in that he follows no rules or palette patterns. He has derived a penchant for drawing and draftsmanship from the old masters, Albrecht Durer being one of his favorites.
Following in the footsteps of the great acting teacher Stanislavsky,
John Lives his Life In Art.
He was raised in a family infused by generations of artists and craftsmen. Luthiers, Carpenters, Draftsman,
Engineers, and Musicians.
His father played a major role is his artistic career, a Korean war veteran, studio musician (guitar being his main instrument), mathematician and metallurgist by trade.
In a very large family, John grew up spending holidays first listening to his uncles and father playing classic swing music and jazz and eventually taught himself how to play guitar and joining in.
John brings music to his art in all its forms,
Self-taught John Sebastian has spent years perfecting several different disciplines of painting and drawing but stays within the parameters of abstract expressionism and impressionism.
Keeping in mind his unique and original styles of painting in series - Sebastian has veered away from traditional art academia and has instead acquired an approach to painting that retains hints of his favorite American modern contemporary painting masters, Paul Klee, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko and of course Gerhard Richter who he most likens his work to in that he follows no rules or palette patterns. He has derived a penchant for drawing and draftsmanship from the old masters, Albrecht Durer being one of his favorites.
Following in the footsteps of the great acting teacher Stanislavsky,
John Lives his Life In Art.
Love
2000
Refrigerator Box "48 x "64
Mixed Medium
Untitled
"46 x "72 Canvas
Mixed Medium
Sold Private Collection
Storms
2008
Canvas "28 x "42
Acrylic
Untitled Diptych
Canvas
Mixed Medium
"24 x "36 - 2 Canvas Panels
Seven
2006
Canvas "24 x "36
Mixed Medium
Sold Private Collection
