John A. Lande is an artist whose work fits the broad classification of Abstract art with individual pieces rooted in such specific categories as Action painting, Op art, and Color Field painting. The art is in applied mixed media, mostly as pigment on paper. Juxtaposition color and texture drive the explorative technique. The resulting effect is a balance between optic stimulation and mesmerization, an eclectic look at state of flux.

Abstract Art

emphasized spontaneous personal expression, freedom from accepted artistic values, surface qualities of paint, and the act of painting itself. The object is to express the inner feelings of the artist toward the subject or the surface that the painting is on. It is as much an emotional release for the artist as it is anything else.

Action Painting

energetically applied painting, involving movements of the whole body -- or at least of its larger limbs, as opposed to minute movements of the fingers and wrist -- and a certain indifference to traditional niceties of execution, like the avoidance of drips and spatters.

Op Art

* concern with optics that is the physical and psychological
   process of vision.
* overly cerebral and systematic
* optical illusions
* representational / non-representational

Color Field

no spattering, no dribbling, betrays the painter's "action", the forces that give rise to these shapes seems to be the same kind as those governing the cloud formations in wind-swept sky and the pattern of veins in a leaf.

Background:

Bachelor of Fine Arts Elmira College, Elmira, NY (Participant in Numerous Jurored / Non-jurored Exhibitions)
Advanced Watercolor, Delhi, NY 1996
Floral Watercolor, Brookline, MA 1999
Sumi-e Painting, Brookline, MA 2000