Bottle Green Earth
Mixed media on canvas
60″H x 48″W
An introduction can be a wonderful thing. You can meet interesting people, and make new friends. You can be introduced to your new favorite foods, books, music, or artist.
I’d like to introduce you to some of my favorite artists. Some of whom I’ve been familiar with for years, and others I’ve only recently been introduced to.
The person I’d like to introduce is the artist John Mclaughlin.
Orange Peal
mixed media on canvas
36″H x 48″W
John Mclaughlin was born in 1954. He lives in Canton Mi.
Duct Work
Original drawing/collage on Canson Classic cream colored paper.
9″ H x 12″ W
Artist Statement
“John McLaughlin’s paintings and drawings are part of his own lineage of abstraction that has evolved over some twenty five years. McLaughlin’s work has always arisen from an earnest search for resolution in a range of gestures, movements and erasures. The appearance and meaning of the resolution has developed in the meandering progression of the creative process. McLaughlin continues his investigation into the possibilities of the accidental along with the more deliberate forms and lines in both nature and the man made world. The labors are personal, but also come from a place of acutely studied history of art, design and music. Similar to a musical composition, McLaughlin slowly creates his paintings by building on and modifying motifs applied in previous layers. He embraces improvisational gestures and incidents allowing some of the previous marks to show in a palimpsest manner. Among this rich layering are fits and starts of lines, doodles and sketches. This action occurs in so many layers, that some images are barely perceivable, giving us insight into McLaughlin’s thought process and leaves you searching for more clues. On the top layer are hazy spaces of the paintings hard-lined, organic shapes of color and line drawings that conjure a quirky aggregate of the ancient, scientific and industrial hieroglyphs. The paintings are a steady, engrossing read that gradually reveal their history and resolve. My art work on canvas involves the unintended or accidental effect of a mark or gesture drawn over a period of time and many paint layers. This allows the viewer to form their own conclusion based on each individual imagination and past experience.”
Huron River
Mixed media drawing/painting on canvas
30″H x 48″W
Other material relating to John Mclaughlin.
Artist website: drawinghermit.com
Artwork 100: John Mclaughlin
ART: John Mclaughlin
The Wrighter: John Mclaughlin
represented by:
LaFontsee Galleries in Grand Rapids and Douglas Mi
Danielle Peleg Gallery West Bloomfield Mi.
Hudson Gallery Sylvania Ohio
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