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John Raux
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b. 1978 Dakar, Senegal
EDUCATION:
2000 BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
EXHIBITION:
2012 Lament, Jacob’s Well, Kansas City, MO
2011 Passages, Beggar’s Table,Kansas City, MO
footballzine(at)gmail.com
@johnraux
b. 1978 Dakar, Senegal
EDUCATION:
2000 BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
EXHIBITION:
2012 Lament, Jacob’s Well, Kansas City, MO
2011 Passages, Beggar’s Table,Kansas City, MO
Wholes, BNIM, Kansas City, MO
2010 Re:Construction, Jaaga, Bangalore, India
2009 The Journey of Home, Beggar’s Table, Kansas City, MO
2010 Re:Construction, Jaaga, Bangalore, India
2009 The Journey of Home, Beggar’s Table, Kansas City, MO
In the Wake of the New, 1617, Kansas City, MO
The Old Scale to Measure Growth, Bridgeport, Kansas City, MO
The Old Scale to Measure Growth, Bridgeport, Kansas City, MO
2008 Meandering Conclusions, The Bad Seed, Kansas City, MO
2006 Here and There, Jacob’s Well, Kansas City, MO
2004 Rings, Civil Board Shop, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Accident Prone, WCH, Kansas City, MO
GROUP EXHIBITION:
2012 The Art of Giving, Mattie Rhodes, Kansas City/Oaxaca, Mexico
2006 Here and There, Jacob’s Well, Kansas City, MO
2004 Rings, Civil Board Shop, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Accident Prone, WCH, Kansas City, MO
GROUP EXHIBITION:
2012 The Art of Giving, Mattie Rhodes, Kansas City/Oaxaca, Mexico
Dwelling Show, Beggar’s Table, Kansas City, MO
The 816 Bike Collective Benefit, Kansas City, MO
2011 The Kyrie Foundation Benefit, Overland Park, KS
2010 The Advent Conspiracy, Jacob’s Well, Kansas City, MO
2007 Gramicci Installations, Salt Lake City, UT
2011 The Kyrie Foundation Benefit, Overland Park, KS
2010 The Advent Conspiracy, Jacob’s Well, Kansas City, MO
2007 Gramicci Installations, Salt Lake City, UT
Hip-hop Academy Benefit, Creative Minds, Kansas City, MO
ONE Campaign Benefit, Arts Incubator, Kansas City, MO
2006 Changing Installation, Civil Board Shop, Los Angeles, CA
The James Dean Trio, Video Installations and Vocals
2005 The Orange show, DalArts, Kansas City, MO
2001 Red Cross Benefit, The Pearl, Kansas City, MO
AWARDS:
2009 Paint the District Award, Kansas City, MO
PUBLICATION:
2009 On the Bright Side of Paradox is Relationship, poetry book
2002-09 Footballzine, paper football fanzine
OTHER:
2012 Curator of The Forum at Middle of the Map Fest
2011 BNIM, Artist-in-Residence
CoLaboratory, Mobile geodesic dome and collaborative art space
2009-10 Himalayan journey and cultural research in Nepal and India
2007 Pacific Crest Trail, Thru-hike Mexico to Canada
2002-04 The Forum, Communal Art Space for Happenings and Installations
2001 Red Cross Benefit, The Pearl, Kansas City, MO
AWARDS:
2009 Paint the District Award, Kansas City, MO
PUBLICATION:
2009 On the Bright Side of Paradox is Relationship, poetry book
2002-09 Footballzine, paper football fanzine
OTHER:
2012 Curator of The Forum at Middle of the Map Fest
2011 BNIM, Artist-in-Residence
CoLaboratory, Mobile geodesic dome and collaborative art space
2009-10 Himalayan journey and cultural research in Nepal and India
2007 Pacific Crest Trail, Thru-hike Mexico to Canada
2002-04 The Forum, Communal Art Space for Happenings and Installations
Samples of my work as An Astronaut with Roots or rather An Artist in Residence at BNIM.
Passages. In the summer of 2009, I left Kansas City to live in Asia(Nepal, India, Bhutan, and Thailand) for a year. These paintings started in Kathmandu. A few weeks into the series, I found my visa about to expire and packed my bags, strapped them to my mountain bike and took the long way into India. A year and a half later, while in residency at BNIM, I found the series of half finished paintings that had not seen the light of day since I first packed them and so I set on the journey again to revisit and contemplate the passages between time, experience and culture.
मुटु Mystery over Mastery(Intuition) 2011, 8”x6.25” acrylic on canvas, framed
परिबार Topography of Changing Perspectives (Generation) 2011, 8”x6.25” acrylic on canvas, framed
खस्नु Typhoon of All Relationship(Gravitation) 2011, 8”x6.25” acrylic on canvas, framed
Re:Construction While in staying in Bangalore, India in the spring of 2010 at JAAGA I exhibited 10 of the pieces and later finished the entire series of 36 while at BNIM.
Untitled 28 2010, 11.5”x16.5” acrylic on paper, unframed
Untitled 19 2010, 11.5”x16.5” acrylic on paper, unframed
Untitled 2 2010, 11.5”x16.5” acrylic on paper, unframed
Riding the lines. In 2011,I spent two weeks doing portraits on Etch-A-Sketch in the subways of New York. The performance’s emphasis was the medium’s fragility, novelty, and play while referencing the cultural mechanisms of distraction, alienation and disconnection. The work aimed to be a subtle catalyst of surprise, interaction, and childlike curiosity within the closed doors and lives of the daily commute.
Etch-A-Sketch Documentation from the “Riding the Lines” performance on the NYC Subway
Wholes. the relational cosmology of being
This series of double-sided paintings express the human journey of boundaries, limitations of view, and the creative act of putting memory and imagination together in a process. Every beginning is a leap of faith. Turbulence leads towards transformation if there is willingness to learn and respond. The layers emerge by reference and intuition. History and experience can be transparent insight or opaque cover up. As horizons and possibilities are explored, a parallel and seemingly opposing side is developing in tandem. The whole is never in sight, rather it is held relationally in a delicate balancing act.
This series of double-sided paintings express the human journey of boundaries, limitations of view, and the creative act of putting memory and imagination together in a process. Every beginning is a leap of faith. Turbulence leads towards transformation if there is willingness to learn and respond. The layers emerge by reference and intuition. History and experience can be transparent insight or opaque cover up. As horizons and possibilities are explored, a parallel and seemingly opposing side is developing in tandem. The whole is never in sight, rather it is held relationally in a delicate balancing act.
Construction/Deconstruction: Recollecting imagination,
16” diameter, 2010 acrylic on paper stretched on a maple drum shell, double sided
Anima/Animus: Unforeseen properties of loveʼs labor,
26” diameter, 2010 acrylic on paper stretched on a maple drum shell, double sided
Part/Whole: Appearance and reality are uncertainly principled,
28” diameter, 2010 acrylic on paper stretched on a maple drum shell, double sided
Peel & Stick Originals 2011, 3.5” diameter acrylic on sticker paper
(cropped from the “waste” of the wholes series)
Anima/Animus: Unforeseen properties of loveʼs labor,
26” diameter, 2010 acrylic on paper stretched on a maple drum shell, double sided
Part/Whole: Appearance and reality are uncertainly principled,
28” diameter, 2010 acrylic on paper stretched on a maple drum shell, double sided
Peel & Stick Originals 2011, 3.5” diameter acrylic on sticker paper
(cropped from the “waste” of the wholes series)
