Some News!

heres an update from looking glass and myself, whats going on in the world of looking glass and christopher st john

looking glass is taking a hiatus…i was happy with the essay i wrote about steve storzs work and have been happy to let that simmer while i focus on my own work. the feedback i got from some people lets me know that folks were happy to read something that was more personal and more in depth about art…regretably that might limit my audience, but i have some other essays planned on some of the other looking glass artists we showed. 

my work has been taking quite an interesting turn…essentially i have three bodies of ideas that overlap in a weird vin diagram fashion…beauty:suffering:something else

the something else and where that overlaps with beauty and suffering is my oil painting, and it has been nice to liberate my painting in general from obsessive drawing and the suffering of my figurative work. i have marked that map very well, and i know what i need to pull from there to make the oils resonate…suffering should be there, we live in a frenetic and troubled world, but we need to skip along to the next chapter as is our want…or is it the next berry we are after? jean arp writes, “life is a puzzling puff of wind”, and it seems more puzzling every year. is there room for artists who still take a stand on the notion of quiet?

i have begun a series of small paintings focused on animals, dogs actually, soulsick dogs…the pieces are funny to me, i enjoy using animals to talk about the difficulties of living in this world, animal bodies, hungry bodies, all the masses of teeth and elbows shoving each other aside in the economic dog pile of american society. 

i have taken to twitter again…writing has always been an important part of my process and titles and pieces of things come to me regularly…sometimes these chunks are better as imagined things, and that has been fun to play with..im also canvasing out into social media again…pinterest, twitter, facebook, instagram, tumblr (which is personally my favorite because of the ease it allows in viewing images and finding blogs which dovetail with my interests)
Christopher St. John's Twitter feed

i am also on pinterest :) its mostly a place to recycle old pieces that folks don't have to find on the website...updated as i feel like it, but mostly kept up to date

Christopher St. John's Pinterest Board

i have a show coming up in april at guardino gallery here in portland…very excited about this body of work…i have been unpacking since coming back from my residency in detroit and i like where i am at in my work.. landscapes, flowers, nudes, still lifes, glitter, death…


Guardino Gallery in PDX