John Howard (artist)

John Howard is an artist and illustrator based in the San Francisco Bay Area and is noted for hand-drawn limited-edition screen printed concert posters.

Starting in 1994 John designed posters for local venues like The Fillmore and the Great American Music Hall. Many of these posters can be found in the "The Art Of Modern Rock" (Chronicle Books)

A member of the American Poster Institute, John is a regular exhibitor at their Flatstock events, and at the semi annual poster shows sponsored by The Rock Poster Society (TRPS).

Sometime around 1978, "one of the pioneers of street painting in Sao Paulo was John Howard, an American artist who had moved from San Francisco to Brazil." [Tristan Manco, Lost Art & Caleb Neelon, "Graffiti Brasil", London: Thames and Hudson, 2005, p.14] In due course, he became "a prolific painter on the streets... [painting] over six hundred telephone poles throughout Sao Paulo with his colourful images." [Manco, p.14] Some years later, "he was offered a job teaching graffiti to kids." [Manco, p.14] In an interview for a San Francisco newspaper Howard said: "in Sao Paulo you always had the feeling that there was no center, no history...a city landscape with few trees, no parks, miles of fortress-like walls. There were millions of kids with no access to libraries or museums, nothing. But street art introduced the possibility. The kids realized, "Hey, I can do something." The city became theirs." [Manco, 14-15] John Howard is thought to have shifted between Sao Paulo and San Francisco throughout the 1980s and to have moved back to San Francisco sometime in the late 1990s.

References

ee also

* Alexandre Orion
* Os Gêmeos
* Graffiti

External links

* [http://monkeyink.com/ink/index.php?func=posters Poster Gallery]
* [http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/graffiti/sao/saopaulo_1.html Examples of John Howard's artwork in Sao Paulo]
* [http://www.graffiti.org/sao/saopaulo_2.html more Howard artwork]
* [http://www.graffiti.org/sao/saopaulo_3.html more Howard artwork]