Follow My Way Painting

This series is based on the street postings of New York City. Referring to "wheat pastings and postings", the artist created from the decaying advertisements lining New York City streets. The dialogue created by both residual deterioration and blanketed layers, left behind by years of placing and tearing down wheat paste posters and stapled flyers against construction dividers, results in its own language, unique to the constant turnaround in New York City. He became fascinated with what he refers to as “the city’s modern day cave paintings” in 2016 and has dedicated his creative practice to bringing these compositions to life since then. In the frenetic environment created by growth in technology and saturation of marketing, many ignore their surroundings while walking through the city streets. John Grande exhibits the messages of the 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 city’s free market frenzy. By capturing transient moments, Grande’s artworks explore the language advertisements have with one another and give context to their time.