About John Arbuckle

Artist Statement


Everyday objects elevated to a magical level just beyond the real world - this is the art of John Arbuckle. A shell, a flower, some gourds, a quince on a leafy branch all become luminous globes, painted with many layers of glazes some in oil on canvas and some in watercolor on paper. I am passionate about light and shadow and the sensuous nature of objects and their relationships to each other. I also explore the idea of abstraction within reality when in the process of painting. It has been said that my work is very Zen, which I strive for in my art. The goal of my work is to slow the viewer down and take them to a quite place away form the madness of day to to day life.


John studied at the New York School of Visual Arts and received his B.F.A. in painting and printmaking from Pratt Institute, New York. Exhibiting throughout the United States over the past 34 years, Arbuckle has works in many private and public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Kaiser Permanente, Lloyds of London, to name a few. He has also received numerous awards including Gold and Silver Art of California Discovery Awards

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Bernardus Lodge, Carmel Valley, CA
Erickson, Beasley & Hewitt, San Francisco, CA
Exxon Corporation, New York, NY
Global Touch, Inc. Berkeley, CA
Kaiser Permanente, San Jose, CA
Lloyds of London, San Francisco, CA
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA
Monahan Pacific Development Corp.,San Rafael,CA
Crystal Cruise lines
Nordstrom

CORPORATE COMMISSIONS

Effie Marie Speciality Desserts, Burlingame,CA
Watercolor Series, Red Lion Hotel Corp.,Sacrament, CA
Mural, CB Commerical / Hercules, Inc., Walnut,CA
Mural, Peters International Records, Inc., New York,CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1993 Stanford University Art Spaces, Palo Alto, CA, curator, Priscilla Hexter
1981 ADI Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2003 Christopher Clark Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco.,CA
1870 Design Group, San Francisco, CA
Voshan Fine Art Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

2002 Pacific Resources Inc, Pacific Place, San Francisco,CA
Traditional & Contemporary Printmaking, City Arts gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000 South of Market Artists, Netcentives Inc. San Francisco, CA

1999 Hunter’s Point Shipyard Studio Artists ,Ohlone College, Fremont,CA
University Medical Center, Hallside Gallery,Salt lake City, Utah

1998 Tribune Tower Show, Oakland,CA

1997 Quantum, Milpitas,CA
Nortel Corporation, Santa Clara,CA
The Anatomy of a Print, Bedford Gallery,Walnut Creek,CA
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara,CA
LeCelle Gallery, San Anselmo, Ca

1996 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara,CA
Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA
Gallery 30, Burlingame, CA
Influx Gallery, Ashville, NC
Art Competions sponsored by LANA Paper International, Kismet Gallery,
San Jose, CA, Juror, Janet Fish
Hitachi Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA

1994 LANA Paper International Competition, Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San
Francisco. Juror Wayne Thiebaud

1993 In and Out, OPTS Art Gallery, San Francisco,

1990 American Zephyr Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1989 International Freedom Exhibition, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Survey Exhibition, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1975- ” Young American Printmakers” National Group Exibition Tour sponsored by
1978 Exxon Corporation, Pratt Graphics Center, New York

1978 Louis Abron’s Arts for Living Center, New York
1970 Winston Gallery, Fort Lee,NJ


EDUCATION

1971-76 BFA painting, printmaking, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1971 New York School of Visual Arts, New York,N

AWARDS


1996 LANA International Paper Art Competition ,Exhibition Award, Kismet Gallery
Juror, Janet Fish

1994 Gold Award, California Discovery Awards, Works on Paper, Art of California
Magazine. Juror, Michael Botwick, Director, Newport Harbor Art
Museum;Susan Anderson, Curator of Exhibitions , Laguna Art Museum;Jean
Stern, Director, The Irvine Museum; and Kenneth Trapp, Curator of
Decorative Arts, The Oakland Museum.

1993 Silver Award, California Discovery Awards, Traditional Painting, Art of
California Magazine, Jurors, Ilene Susan Fort, Associate Curator of American
Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Harvey Jones, Senior Curator,

Oakland Museum; Martin Petersen, Senior Curator of Art, San Diego Museum
of Art: Gregory B. Saffel, Publisher, Art of California Magazine,1993

1976 “Young American Printmakers”:National Group Exhibition Tour, sponsored by
Exxon Corporation, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY

 
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