Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is very pleased to announce that John Lathrop has been selected as one of the four winning artists of the gallery’s recent 27th “Solo Art Series” Art Competition. John will now have a month-long solo art exhibition, and he will be featured on the gallery’s front page, on the Gallery’s YouTube Channel, as well as in the “Solo Art Series” Archive.
John Lathrop is an internationally acclaimed award-winning photographer based in Texas, USA. He will now be promoted by the gallery with an extensive public relations campaign.
For this solo exhibition, the gallery will distribute, promote, and circulate press releases to hundreds of major news outlets, with guaranteed inclusion on Google News & Bing News. The Gallery will also provide social media distribution through LST Gallery’s broad social media network.
John’s art will also be featured on the gallery’s YouTube Channel, and with an event postcard.
The “Solo Art Series” is a series of monthly solo art exhibitions for established artists who have a body of work to present to the public. Artist participants were asked to submit the following 3 components for the “Solo Art Series” competition: 1. Their art. 2. Their artist biography. 3. Their artist statement. These elements were evaluated and judged, resulting in the selection of the artists who will be featured in individual month-long solo art exhibitions.
Below is John’s Artist Biography and his Artist Statement, along with 25 of his Mod Pop Art artworks. We hope that you will take the time to read his information and to take a look at his work.
John Lathrop’s childhood was an exploration of art, meticulously studying artists like Bill Watterson and Berkeley Breathed to Andy Warhol and Peter Max to Salvador Dalí and Mark Ryden. Consequently, his own art evolved from penciled cartoons to realistic portraits to surrealist psychedelic scenescapes. As a teen, John earned commissioned murals, posters, T-shirts, advertisements, and a weekly comic strip in the local newspaper—all before graduating high school. Later, while focused on his other creative passion, music—based solely on the need for cover art for his releases—John worked for years to master Adobe software, eventually becoming a graphic designer, realizing how much he loved the artform.
In 2014, John opened his art and design studio, Plaid Design, officially migrating to the digital art space. This led to the development of his unique art style, which he lovingly calls Mod Pop Art. His mixed-media approach combines hand-painted digital artwork with graphic design techniques to create his vibrant, colorful, clean-line style. Drawing inspiration primarily from pop culture, John’s graphic portrait and poster work breathes new life into classic and current references, putting a fun, original spin on pop surrealism, often with a twist of humor and absurdist parody. The result, he hopes, is bold and striking eye-candy, with a vibe that feels vintage yet unmistakably modern.
Along with commissioned art and design work, John has been selling his original art pieces in signed/numbered limited edition fine art prints to clients all over the world for over a decade.
I'm John Lathrop, and I make Mod Pop Art.
Pop culture is family. We grew up with our movies, our music, our novels, our TV, and our video games. Pop culture can influence, guide, and comfort us, especially that which is nostalgic. In this spirit, with my Mod Pop Art, I utilize pop culture as my primary subject matter to conjure feelings of warmth, pleasure, fun, exhilaration, and surprise by adding unexpected and humorous twists (the Mod) and shining brightly colored lights (the Pop) on the people, places, and things (the Art) so many of us have admired and adored throughout our lives. And I do it without judgment or commentary, but with genuine reverence, homage, and love.To see more of John’s work, visit his website.
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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Jay Johansen has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and he will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Jay is an award-winning artist based in California, USA. Jay was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 20th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified his art to be showcased in this feature.
Jay’s Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to over 350+ major news outlets, with inclusion on Google News & Bing News. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Jay’s Artist Biography and 5 images that were submitted to this competition.
Artist Biography
Raised by his artist-father in Oakland, California, portrait artist Jay Johansen, began his journey into the art world at a very young age. Painting ballerinas, matadors, and Hawaiian dancers, Jay established an international collector base, ultimately leading to commissioned paintings of music icons, world dignitaries, as well as a long list of celebrity collectors.
After a brief hiatus, Jay returned to painting full-time in his studio with an interest in creating nearly photo-realistic figurative paintings. Today, Jay enlivens monochromatic faces of women with vivid colors that bring life to the canvas. Using broad strokes, as distinct from his previous style, Jay enjoys a freedom he's never felt as a professional artist.
Imbued with an energy of renewal, Jay is creating art with the verve he had as a child in his father's studio. He refers to his work as Pop Fusion Art.
Jay’s website is www.johansenfineart.com.
