Beautiful Garbage Painting

In this overwhelming, distracting environment, created by growth in technology and saturation of marketing, it is easy to ignore their surroundings while walking through the city streets. John Grande reveals this metropolis, hidden in plain sight, through the lens of his paintbrush. He gives a platform to these overlooked narratives by exposing the compositional quality of worn urban advertisements layering the Gotham city’s canvas. By capturing these transient moments, Grande’s work explores the language advertisements have with one another and gives context to their time. “My art comes from our culture, our history of art and our times.”