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John Sargent
South Euclid Ohio 44121 United States Home Phone: 216 534 6558
Bio
John A Sargent III is a full time Cleveland based artist. His paintings are in the permanent Collections of Progressive Insurance Company, Cleveland Metrohealth Hospital, Ronald McDonald House, Weatherhead School of Management, The Cleveland Clinic, Nacco Corporation, Calfee Halter & Griswold LLP, Summa Akron, Bennetton Corporation, US Supreme Court among others. His paintings are represented in private collections nationally and internationally. He has been juried into regional and National exhibitions such as The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH, The Elmhurst Museum, Elmhurst Ill, The News Museum NY, NY, The Cleveland Museum of Art, the CSU Gallery, Cleveland OH, the Annual OOVAR, the Ohio State Fair, and the Riffe Biennial, Columbus OH, The Paul an Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize, Ashtabula. He has received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. His paintings have been published in New American Painting, Studio Visit Magazine, The International Drawing Annual, Architectural Digest, and appeared on the cover of The Non Profit Quarterly. His Paintings have been used for the covers of nationally distributed books of fiction & scholarship. John serves on the board of the Artist Archives of the Western Reserve where he also chairs the Exhibition Committee, and serves on the Gallery Committee at Valley Arts Center. John teaches painting at the Orange Art Center. He has additionally generated exhibitions such as the Big Ass Art Show and Common Currents.
Artist Statement
THERE IS NO ON TRUTH BUT MANY STORIES, THIS TOO.
Beginning from observations of Nature and meditations on various life experiences, ideas are formed that are both singular and flexible. The paintings emerge through layers of attack and contemplation often transforming in the process. Beauty and an acceptable sense of recognition are important; but transcendence is the goal. When a painting has both a satisfying technical clarity and mystery and otherness, it is usually pretty ripe. The questions that most engage me are those that ponder the unanswerable matters of existence.
Thanks Very Much,
John A Sargent III
1379 Sheffield Rd South Euclid Ohio 44121 United States
