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John Wesley (artist)

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Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Artist

Known for
  
Painting

Spouse
  
Hannah Green (m. ?–1996)

Movement
  
Pop Art

Period
  
Pop art

Name
  
John Wesley


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Born
  
November 25, 1928 (age 95) (
1928-11-25
)
Los Angeles, California

Education
  
University of California, Los Angeles (1947–1950), Los Angeles City College (1947–1950)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Books
  
The Works of the Reverend, The Works of the Rev John Wes, John Wesley

Similar People
  
Patricia Broderick, Matthew Broderick, James Broderick

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John Wesley was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1928. He is a pop artist.

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After holding a series of odd jobs, he began painting at the age of 22. His first exhibition consisted mostly of large-format acrylic paintings of imaginary seals and stamps; he would retain the flatness and limited color range of these works, but would move into the depiction of bodies and cartoon characters, the latter of which led him to be grouped with Pop Art as the 1960s progressed.

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The spareness of his technique often seems more akin to the school known as Minimalism, however, and indeed his closest personal associations were with artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, the latter of whom wrote a laudatory essay on Wesley's early work and later set aside a space for him at his complex in Marfa, Texas. Wesley himself considers his work to be aligned with Surrealism, and many of his paintings since the 1960s have taken this dimension yet further, while retaining an extremely limited range of colors and a sign-like flatness.

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Several retrospectives of his work have been held, the most recent at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in 2000. He was invited to design the cover for the catalogue of the 2006 Armory Show, and his recent paintings were given a substantial amount of space at the Fredericks and Freiser Gallery booth, which represents him. Replicas of his paintings were also featured in the window of the Hermès boutique on Madison Avenue for the duration of the show.

John Wesley (artist) John Wesley at David Kordansky Contemporary Art Daily

Until her death in 1996, Wesley was married to the American writer Hannah Green. The playwright and painter Patricia Broderick, who died in 2003, was his partner for the last six years of her life. He is represented by David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles.

John Wesley (artist) John Wesley at David Kordansky Contemporary Art Daily

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John Wesley (artist) John Wesley Artist Revel in New York created by Scott

References

John Wesley (artist) Wikipedia