Bio:

Artist, Illustrator, Assistant Registrar, School of Visual Arts

Education: BFA, MFA School of Visual Arts; BS, Rutgers College

Clients include: New Yorker, New, New Yorker Desk Diary, Time Out NY, Seventeen, American Illustration 16, POZ, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, Surgical Rounds Magazine, Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve

Group exhibitions include: National Museum of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History, New York, NY; SVA Wooster Street Gallery; SVA Gramercy Gallery; Exit Art, New York, NY; Art Directors Club, New York, NY; Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine

Publications Include: New York Times, The New York Sun

Artist Statement:

I navigate guilty pleasures and bizarre obsessions to construct worlds teeming with the silent whispers of forgotten celluloid, forbidden pre-code horror, and the sublime fascination of outer space. The realms of my imagination exist where the ethereal glow of two-strip technicolor mingles with the haunting presence of monsters, UFO’s, movie stars and the hero worship of athletes. Through meditations on contradiction, I build non-linear narratives to inhabit. Tiny spaces of escape - if only for a moment.

Website: www.behance.net/johnforrest1 | @ffrost.jp

Course: Watercolor Painting FIC-2264-OL

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