John Brainard

Infobox Artist
name = John Brainard


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birthname = John Brainard
birthdate = Birth date and age|1954|12|4|mf=yFlagicon|United States Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
nationality = American
field = Painting, Collage

John Brainard (born on 4 December 1954 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA) is an American painter best known for his collage-paintings.

Biography

The younger brother of noted artist and writer Joe Brainard, he began working in New York in the mid 70's as an illustrator for magazines and advertising before moving into graphics art direction for television, then scenic design and art direction for television and films. Beginning in the mid 80's to exhibit his paintings, overlapping with media projects, he has shown with the George Billis Gallery in New York and Los Angeles, in London at England & Co., and in Paris at Jane Roberts Fine Arts, among other venues in the US and Europe. He moved to Paris in 2005, where he currently lives and works.

Exhibitions

* 1992 – North Star Gellery, Grafton, Vermont
* 1993 – Seriphim Gallery, Englewood, New Jersey
* 1996 – Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York
* 1997 – National Academy of Design, New York
* 2001 – England & Co. Gallery, London
* 2002 and 2003 – George Billis Gallery, New York
* 2004 – George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
* 2005 – Jane Roberts Gallery, Paris

Work

John Brainard’s collage-paintings incorporate painting, photography, collage and assemblage. "...to concoct wry, witty, tender, sometimes touching, visual metaphors that reveal a spiritual kinship with Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Cornell." (Artspeak, Jan. 1997). Employing found objects of all description, photographs of decaying surfaces, and gestural painting, the works are abstractly narrative and personal.