40.25 × 58 in
in
cm
$7,000
Lifeguard, the exuberant print by John Newsom, is from his Shangri-La Suite from the Flora and Fauna series. A fascination in flora and fauna spans across centuries and disciplines; from science to fine art, from the Galápagos to the far North, from ancient Indigenous sculpture to 19th Century naturalism and so on. Newsom’s oeuvre provides a contemporary dialogue with flora and fauna and with the birds in the foreground of his Shangri-La Suite. The works continue the visual exploration of that which is not human but continues to fascinate the human eye. Harmonious worlds are imbued with Newsom’s mastery of colour and celebrate the freedom of light and fleeting moments.
Flora and Fauna is published by limited edition fine art print publisher Art Novel. The suite is comprised of 10 serigraphs and in editions of 150.
| Medium | Prints |
| Signature | Signed |
| Frame | Unframed |
| Condition | Excellent |
| Seller | Private |
| Location | Vancouver, Canada |
| Provenance | Art Novel (print publisher) |
Renowned American artist John Newsom was born in Oklahoma and has spent his career in New York City. His hyperreal prints and paintings draw on a vast legacy of eastern and western artistic practice, from early botanical sketching to Japanese printmaking to Mexican mural painting. American landscape tradition underpins his practice, witnessed by his large scale works, expressive honesty, and the freedom of his palette.
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EDUCATION
1994 MFA, New York University, New York
1992 BFA, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Eye of the Beholder, Contra Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Eye of the Beholder, Contra Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 Shangri-La, Brintz Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida (catalogue)
2016 Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles (two-artist exhibition with Rinus Van De Velde)
2015 Marc Straus Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Rogue Arena, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey (catalogue)
2013 Bestiary, Marc Straus Gallery, New York
2011-12 Crescendo, The Richard J. Massey Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, New York (catalogue)
2011 Nocturne Paintings, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles (West Gallery) Motifs and Methods, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles (East Gallery)
2009 Beyond the Horizon, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles (West Gallery)
Rebels and Raptors, Lattuada Gallery, Milan, Italy (catalogue)
2007 VS., Mike Weiss Gallery, New York (two-artist exhibition with Arnulf Rainer)
2006 Allegory of Nations, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York
2004 Black Widow Paintings, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Backyard Bliss, New Gallery / Thom Andriola, Houston, Texas
2002 New Paintings, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York
2001 Recent Paintings, Leyendecker Gallery, Tenerife, Spain
Meeting Place, Silverstein Gallery, New York
2000 Natural Selection, Margrett Gallery, New York
1999 Brushfire, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery (project space), New York
1998 Sanctuary (100 Bird Paintings), Greene Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
1997 Recent Drawings, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York
1996 Recent Paintings, 407 Gallery, New York
New Work, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York
1995 Iconic Narrator / Singular Narrative Paintings, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, (two-artist exhibition with Chuck Agro)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 EXPEDITION, The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), Vermont (catalogue)
2020 Grace in the Jungle, 8.Salon, Hamburg, Germany (catalogue)
The Myth of Place in Spite of the Hand, Poti Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Open World, Brintz Gallery, Palm Beach
2019 Line of Portrayal, Contra Gallery, Zagreb, Crotia
Original Copy, Alta Art Space, Mälmo, Sweden (catalogue)
Think in Pictures (curated by the Animators of Paint and Friends), Amelchenko Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Groundwork, Contra Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
Flora, Brintz Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida (catalogue)
2018 Rite of Passage, Vito Schnabel Projects, New York
Points of Light in a Nocturnal World (curated by John Newsom in cooperation with Metro Pictures, New York), 7 Herkimer Place, Brooklyn, New York (catalogue)
2017 Back to the Shack (curated by André Butzer), Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles
Garden Party, Brintz Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida (catalogue)
LOB DES SCHATTENS – DJ Piet Mondrian’s Sister in the Year 2849 – and her books (from Vienna) curated by DJ Arnold Schoenberg and Rhianna, Marc Straus Gallery, New York (catalogue)
2016 DER FUNKE SOLL IN DIR SEIN (curated by André Butzer), Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
Urban Dawn II, McCaig + Welles, Beirut, Lebanon
Sizing It Up: Scale in Nature and Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
2015 Late Harvest, The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada (catalogue) The Hollow Bone (curated by Robert Banat), Ray Smith Studio, Brooklyn
2014 Xigue-Xigue, Marc Straus Gallery, New York
All the Best Artists are my Friends (curated by Ray Smith), MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey
2013 Prints & Paper, The Richard J. Massey Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, New York
2012 ESTATE, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Ai Weiwei Humanitarian Award Exhibition, WhiteBox, New York
PRINTED HISTORIES 16 Years of Print Portfolios at Exit Art, Exit Art, New York
2011 An Instance of Vibration (curated by Peter Makebish), The Bowery Hotel, New York
Outer Space, Exit Art, New York
ART MANA FEST, The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, Jersey City, New Jersey
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fransisco, CA
The Neuberger Museum of Art, Westchester County, NY
The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
The Francis Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, NY
The RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
The Vera List Center, The New School, NY
The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
The Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, PA
The Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, MA
The Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
The Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA
The Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, MA
The University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMASS, Amherst, MA
The Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
The Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley, CA The Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Historic Deerfield Museum, Worcester, MA
The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, South Hadley, MA
The Mount Holyoke Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
The New York Public Library Print Collection, New York
The Library of Congress Collection, Washington D.C.
The Tottori Prefectural Museum, Osaka, Japan
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