John Bjerklie
John Bjerklie was born in Los Angeles (US), he lives and works in New York (US).
“My practice as an artist is concerned with the convergence of media as it occurs in an urban environment, and how we negotiate it. Necessarily, my work involves sculptural form, painterly abstraction and electronic media (television in particular). Conceptually my work seeks to find and clarify a sense of presence or personal acknowledgement in the midst of indifference to the perception of images. In practical terms, the result will be abjects made of wood, fabric, and paint that sometimes house or frame imagery culled from the television screen. I am mixing materials and processes that are traditional to painting, atypical to sculpture, and quite foreign to electronic media. The mixture results in an installation that cannot be defined by any one discipline.
I have exhibited my work there and throughout the USA since 1980, and I have also taught at various art colleges in the US including Rutgers University, Trenton State College. I am currently on sabbatical from Marymount College, New York City, and during my stay in France, I’ll be undertaking one-day visiting artist duties at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille.” - John Bjerklie
John Bjerklie was born in Los Angeles (US), and he lives and works in New York (US). His work blends sculpture, painting, and electronic media, questioning the perception of images in the urban environment. Since the 1980s, he has exhibited in the United States and internationally, notably at the Sculpture Center (1995, New York), Lennon-Weinberg Gallery (1993, New York), Tamaya Gallery (1993, Tokyo), and Jubilee Foundation (1995, New York).
