Jack St John

Biography

Jack St. John was born and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, and currently lives and maintains a studio in Bedford, Ohio. After brief career as an engineering student at Case Western Reserve University, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Kent State University, with a concentration in painting, After that he participated in the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited regularly in both local and national group and juried shows. Over several decades, his practice has explored a variety of picture making styles and strategies, from highly realistic still life painting to large scale assemblage to his current direction of non-objective mixed media work on paper and canvas.

Artist Statement

My art represents a register of all the moments of art-making, the second-by-second evolving conspiracy between thought and action that occurs in front of the paper or canvas I am trying to solve the visual and emotional riddle that the first application of marks and color and media put forth.

The pieces are informed by the attention I direct at the world around me-and in me-during that creative experience. The pieces relate to the world around me...

Kent State University School of Art
School of the Art Institute of Chicago

-Ohio State Fair Fine Art Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio, 2023
-13th Annual New May Show, Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, Ohio, 2023
-2nd annual Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize Competition Exhibition, Ashtabula Arts Center, Ashtabula,
Ohio, 2023
--47th Annual Juried Fairmount Art Exhibition, Fairmount Center for the Arts, Novelty, Ohio, 2023
-The New Now 2022, biennial juried exhibition, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland,
Ohio
-Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize Competition Exhibition, Ashtabula Arts Center, Ashtabula,
Ohio
--46th Annual Juried Fairmount Art Exhibition, Fairmount Center for the Arts, Novelty, Ohio, 2022
-12th Annual New May Show, Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, Ohio, 2022
-Art Now:Local Artists Keep Creating Through Pandemic, Beachwood Community Center, 2020
-Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana Regional Showcase, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2019
-10th annual “New May Show”, Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, Ohio, 2019
-CAN Triennial, Smart Space, West 78th Street Galleries and Studios, Cleveland, Ohio, 2018
-Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana Regional Showcase, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2018
-10th annual “New May Show”, Lakeland Community Col...