John Spears

BRIEF HISTORY OF JOHN SPEARS ARTWORK

I established my first large scale 5,000 sq. ft. studio in the late ‘70’s in San Francisco. The structure was the old Hamm’s brewery building, one of many warehouse buildings abandoned in the South of Market area at the time. I was one of the first artists to set up shop in what was to become the SoHo of the West Coast which eventually morphed into the Designer Mart District.

I first began my exploration of the silk screen as a printing process and created a fabric line for the wholesale trade. Eventually, I discovered that it could be much more than just printing but rather a painting medium in which each canvas became a unique painting. After completing 4,000 yards for Apple’s original headquarters in Cupertino I became disenchanted with just printing.

I decided to move to Santa Fe and began to explore the silk screen as a painting medium. I also became director of Shidoni, a 5,000 sq. ft. interior gallery and an eight acre sculpture garden. Shidoni is also a foundry that cast bronze sculptures for artists nationally. The artists were mostly emerging sculptors whom many became established artists of today. I still keep in touch with a number of the artists I now consider frie...

ARTIST: John Spears
441 Barbertown- Pt. Breeze Road
Flemington, NJ 08822
(908) 996-6086
johnspears@earthlink.net
www.2D-3DInc.com
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EDUCATION: Graduate of Stanford University
BFA Studio Fine Arts
Graduated with Distinction
Student of Nathan Oliveira and Frank Lobdell


COMMISSIONS & COLLECTORS:


American Hospitality Corporation
Apple Computer
ARCO
Artelonics (Shell Oil)
Astra Zeneca
Bally’s Park Place
Bank of America
Berkeley Library, NJ
Bricktown Library, NJ
Bunzyl Corp.
Citibank
Citicorp
Comcast (private collection)
Commodities Corp.
DuPont Corporation
Elizabethtown Gas
EBI Medical Products
Faison Developers
Rupert Ravens NEXXT Gallery
George Segal Gallery
Forbes
Hagerdorn Psychiatric Hospital
Hillier Group
HOK
Montclair State University
Hunterdon Cancer Center
Hunterdon County Courthouse
IBM
Jackson Cross
Johnson & Johnson
Rutgers University
Merck Pharmaceutical
Morris Companies
Krafts Foods/formerly Nabisco
Northstar Realty
National Westminster Bank
NeuStar, Inc.
Ocean County...

PAST SHOWS:
Solo Show, San Jose Museum of Art,
San Jose, CA
Solo Show, Bank of America,
San Francisco, CA
Group Show, Chris Cole Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM
International Arts Competition, Juror Hopkins,
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Judged by Henry Hopkins
Group Show, Shidoni Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Albuquerque International Airport,
Albuquerque, NM
Group Show, Bell Lab, Bedminster, NJ
Solo Show, Avanti Gallery, Watchung, NJ
Group Show, Charles Cowles Gallery,
New York, NY
The Williams Collection, Princeton, NJ
Reece Gallery, New York, NY
Peter Drew Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Solo Show, International Design Center
New York, NY
Solo Show, Architecture & Design Building,
New York, NY
Group Show, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Juried Show, The Galleria, Mesa, AZ
Juried Show, Art Council of Essex County, NJ
Hunterdon Medical Center , NJ
Ocean County Public Library, NJ
Lena Di Gangi Gallery, West Patterson, NJ
National Show through 1999,
Judged by Lloyd Herman,
Curator for Canadian Museum of Arts &
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