Information
Artist Statement
Life and death or something like that.
Education
Massachusetts College of Art, BFA, 2001
Selected Exhibitions
Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA, “Winter/Summer” October 2005
Gann Academy, Waltham, MA, May 2005
Mark Gallery, Cambridge, MA, Jan 2004
Mark Gallery, Cambridge, MA, Nov., 2002
MPG, Boston, MA, “New Art 2002”, honorable mention award, Jan 2002
Excerpts from Reviews
“John Lobosco’s oil paintings reveal a love of color and of the qualities of oil paint itself. There is a reverence for capturing illumination on abstract forms and in abstract seascape.” (Ellen Howards, Arts Media)
“A reflection of molten sun illuminates “Mudflats III” so brilliantly I had to check whether it was a trick of gallery lighting- but no, there is illumination from within, borne of the paint, the colors and brushwork.” (Ellen Howards, Arts Media)
“John Lobosco’s abstractions refer to landscape and season…. His process seems to be an intuitive, reactive one.” (Shawn Hill, Arts Media)
Excerpts from Poetry by Ed Codish on “Winter/Summer” paintings
“Mud melts and lies above the hard months gone
and yet to come. Lichen paints life
on exposed rock, gray-black through snow, twilight-
cleaned, covering less, oozing a little
as if the scab of winter were scraped off
and the raw flesh of the real earth is bared……
…………………..This painting is too true,
John, too much reveals the twisting, the mind’s
lies, how intellect denies the presentness
of the great disorder.”
(Winter Painting Number 4)