The Year 2020, 12″x 12″, acrylic on a set of four 6″x 6″ canvases (making the painting 12″x 12″ if/when hung together). 2021.
This painting, part of my spontaneous geometric series and done on four small canvases, was inspired by the continual craziness and “ins-and-outs” of the year 2020.
Each canvas is visually connected to the others much like the many crazy aspects of the year 2020 continued to impact other parts of the year. Though painted to be displayed together, each small canvas (representing winter, spring, summer and fall) was composed and signed individually for being displayed separately if fate takes the work in that direction. Whether this work continues to be kept together or each canvas ends up in separate locations is being left completely to chance, much like the many aspects of the year for which it is named.
~ John Essex II is a retired art teacher, a two-time Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellow and an Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Arts Fellow. He is also artist/owner of EssexArt ABC, LLC through which he keeps busy creating his own fine art, creates commissioned art, does caricaturing by commission and at special events, conducts private painting parties and is contacted regularly to play the bagpipes (yes… play the bagpipes). Essex also maintains two online print-on-demand stores where patrons can acquire gallery quality prints of his art as well as other products that feature his work. To view what Essex does, and/or to shop his online stores, go to:
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