John Ford

ABOUT THE WORK

This latest series of paintings and constructions focuses on shape, colour and texture, continuing an exploration of images and objects made by the construction of many pieces into a solid and cohesive, but somewhat fractured whole. They bring with them the energy of healing and rebirth, expanding a series of works rooted in an autobiographical narrative involving loss and death.

My past constructed works made of plywood, drywall, canvas and paper grew out of a search for expressive materials with which to build objects that reflected natural and organic forms describing structure, fracture and façade. Surfaces reflected those of aged and scarred walls, or skin, assembled and finished roughly, in the manner of an imperfect repair to a broken object, a healed but scarred human mind, or body.

More recent work leans toward a more finished aesthetic, although the surfaces of most pieces remain textured and worn. The colour, and organic shapes and rythyms of this latest work speak to a wholeness, and celebration of life and love.

BIOGRAPHY

John Ford was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada. Ford graduated from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto in 1990 and pursued a career as a painter, exhibiting in commer...

Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada 1990

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

April, 2021 to present
Sam and Adele Golden Gallery
New Berlin, New York

2019 artist residency group exhibition

PAST EXHIBITIONS

November 28, 2019 – January 4, 2020
Earls Court Gallery, Hamilton
COUNT 10 group exhibition

2019 Art Toronto with Renaan Isaacs Contemporary Art

2019 Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa
Solo exhibition

2019 Renaan Isaacs Contemporary Art, Guelph
Pop II Three-person exhibition

2018 Art Gallery of Mississauga
Visual Arts Mississauga 41st Annual Juried Exhibition

2018 Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, Ottawa
Dealer’s Choice exhibition

2018 Earls Court Gallery, Hamilton
Organically Abstract, Two-person exhibition

2018 Art Interiors, Toronto
Festival of Smalls

2017 Art Interiors, Toronto
Festival of Smalls

2016 Gallery 3, Ottawa
Group exhibition

2016 Art Interiors, Toronto
Festival of Smalls

2015 Art Interiors, Toronto
Festival of Smalls

2015 Griffin Gallery, Owen Sound
Solo exhibition

2015 Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton
Guest Artist

2015 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto

2012 Meaford Hall Art & Cultural Centre, Meaford
Juried Art Exhibition (1st Prize)

2006 Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound
Convergence – Jur...