John Howell White
The Graham Building’s newest installation features artwork by InLiquid Member John Howell White. These larger than life size paintings radiate vivid colors and earth tones, which demonstrate an interaction between shape and color. This artist highlight is on display in the first floor lobby of the Graham Building, viewable on by appointment.
About the Artist:
I have been a practicing artist for over 50 years. This sampling was produced in my Philadelphia studio in 2023-24, where I benefited from the interplay of cognition, sensation, materiality, faith, and imagery.
I have most recently shown at: the Honickman Center, 2024; The Shape of Tomorrow (2021), Park Towne Place, Philadelphia; Incubations (2021), Scotts Mills Gallery; Ghost Stories, The Works Gallery (2019), NYC & Archer Law Gallery 35 (2019), Philadelphia, PA; and Related Visions, Provincetown Art Association and Museum (2018), Provincetown, MA, The Cotuit Center for the Arts (2016), Cotuit, MA; and Maryland Hall (2014), Annapolis, MD.
I attended a three-week artist residency at Jentel in Banner, WY in 2024. I am an Emeritus Professor of Art Education at Kutztown University. I earned an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute and a Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University. My textbook, Experience Painting, is published by Davis Press. In 2012, I was named the NAEA Higher Education Art Educator of the Year.
Statement:
“Paintings hover about, unattached to their referents. They differ, in time, reference, and ambience, from film and photography. They welcome their viewers through their visual impact and, like ghosts, haunt them through their visual omissions. They conjure an absence, which ferments attachments and invites future visitations.
These works are place holders, solid forms that contain the residue of the immanence that comes from the search for a future. They invite contemplation.
Paint is ubiquitous, simple, and infinitely fascinating. It allows for a rhythmic oscillation between the permanent and the timeless; the material and the virtual; and the private and the public.”
