John Wesley Culley Jr.
“Jack Culley”
b. 1943 -
Artist Bio:
Jack Culley began “The Last Great American Landscape Series” while teaching at California State University San Bernardino and receiving a lot of encouragement and some pushing from his students and from teachers.
Jack studied geology and geography at California State University Los Angeles and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography. He then earned another, Bachelors of Arts in Art History and Fine Art from CaliforniaStateUniversity, San Bernardino and later a Masters of Fine Art in Painting & Sculpture from ClaremontGraduateUniversity. With backgrounds in the sciences, math, art history and fine art, he is committed to the task of combining all aspects of these studies into his works.
Jack was born in Houston, Texas in 1943. However, he grew up working around oilrigs on the family farm outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved to Southern California in 1953.
Artist Statement:
“I have produced works tailored for three categories, each then carried on as a series.”
THE ALTERPIECE SERIES
These works are complex, mechanical and borrow an external element from the altarpiece, the frame - a heralding device. The internal features, the picture, illustrate historically significant ideas or concepts. The relative movements of elements in the picture form are the defining aspects of the picture. I view these works as painting…
THE PERCEPTION SERIES
These works deal with those small deceptions that are brought about by mishaps associated with matters of perception. They are illustrative models. Some are mechanical, and in these, some elements move. Some depict the results of mechanical actions. With these works I hope to define a few of the tasks given to painting. I view these works as paintings.
THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN LANDSCAPE SERIES
These works are a little about the loss of “REAL LANDSCAPE”, more about the increasing dominance of those flat images that are arriving into our field of vision, and even more about the mechanics of painting. In these works every process of their building shows up somewhere, processes that obtain, delete, define, enlarge, protect and repair, and in the end the effects of process upon process, upon process define the work, and the preliminary object remains exposed and the other object ‘the painting’ shows up on top.
I view the works as paintings.
“Jack Culley”
b. 1943 -
Artist Bio:
Jack Culley began “The Last Great American Landscape Series” while teaching at California State University San Bernardino and receiving a lot of encouragement and some pushing from his students and from teachers.
Jack studied geology and geography at California State University Los Angeles and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography. He then earned another, Bachelors of Arts in Art History and Fine Art from CaliforniaStateUniversity, San Bernardino and later a Masters of Fine Art in Painting & Sculpture from ClaremontGraduateUniversity. With backgrounds in the sciences, math, art history and fine art, he is committed to the task of combining all aspects of these studies into his works.
Jack was born in Houston, Texas in 1943. However, he grew up working around oilrigs on the family farm outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved to Southern California in 1953.
Artist Statement:
“I have produced works tailored for three categories, each then carried on as a series.”
THE ALTERPIECE SERIES
These works are complex, mechanical and borrow an external element from the altarpiece, the frame - a heralding device. The internal features, the picture, illustrate historically significant ideas or concepts. The relative movements of elements in the picture form are the defining aspects of the picture. I view these works as painting…
THE PERCEPTION SERIES
These works deal with those small deceptions that are brought about by mishaps associated with matters of perception. They are illustrative models. Some are mechanical, and in these, some elements move. Some depict the results of mechanical actions. With these works I hope to define a few of the tasks given to painting. I view these works as paintings.
THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN LANDSCAPE SERIES
These works are a little about the loss of “REAL LANDSCAPE”, more about the increasing dominance of those flat images that are arriving into our field of vision, and even more about the mechanics of painting. In these works every process of their building shows up somewhere, processes that obtain, delete, define, enlarge, protect and repair, and in the end the effects of process upon process, upon process define the work, and the preliminary object remains exposed and the other object ‘the painting’ shows up on top.
I view the works as paintings.