I am a self taught full time artist working in mixed media on paper and canvas. I was born in Detroit Michigan in 1954 and currently live and reside in Canton Michigan (near Ann Arbor) since 1980. My drawing/collages have been collected all over the world.
This work combines representational along with abstract figures and forms. My combination of drawings, paintings and collage elements combine to make contemporary landscape and portrait pictures in the urban environment.
John McLaughlin’s paintings and drawings are part of his own lineage of abstraction that has evolved over some twenty five years. McLaughlin’s work has always arisen from an earnest search for resolution in a range of gestures, movements and erasures. The appearance and meaning of the resolution has developed in the meandering progression of the creative process.
McLaughlin continues his investigation into the possibilities of the accidental along with the more deliberate forms and lines in both nature and the man made world. The labors are personal, but also come from a place of acutely studied history of art, design and music.
Art Effect Gallery Detroit solo show 2011
Ann Arbor Public Library Ann Arbor Mi.August 2011
Lansing Art Gallery Lansing Mi. May-August 2011
Birmingham Conference Center Birmingham Mi. Sep-Nov 2011
I am represented by the Art Effect Gallery Detroit Mi.
LaFontsee Gallery Grand Rapids Mi.
Luminarte Gallery Dallas Tx.
Lake Shore Gallery Douglas Mi.
2009-2010-2011 I have been accepted into the prestigious Michigan Fine Art Exhibition at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
my web site www.drawinghermit.com
Danielle Peleg Gallery www.daniellepeleggallery.com
LaFontsee Art Gallery www.lafontsee.us
Luminarte Gallery www.luminarte.com
Art Effect Gallery www.arteffectgallery.com
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