Presentation
"In 1986 I began to paint using a system of chance to select colors. This strategy is as follows:
I choose an area to be painted. I then throw a dart at the dartboard bull's eye. When a numbered wedge is struck, I then paint with its predetermined hue.
Carried out in a playful spirit, this arbitrary system results in unique color combinations. To resolve a painting my game-playing shifts to problem-solving, still maintaining this chance process.
I continue to work within this process because my artistic concerns still revolve around elements of play and discovery. However, while my concern is with visual dynamics - the play of color, visual effects and the visceral nature of paint, its various applications and interactions - I am intrigued by the tension between these strictly painterly or abstract concerns and representational imagery.
I have worked through a wide range of imagery including still life whose status historically as low art makes it an appropriate place to explore freely. More recently I have returned to even more banal subjects that also lend a sense of humour to my work. Confronting the mundane nature of everyday life, I am representing everything from the kitchen sink and its usual forms of disarray to the formidable state of the bathroom - a rare subject in the realm of art.
Though the playful nature of the subject compliments the process, there often remains a tension intrinsic to this same process - the tension between chaos and order, struggle and play, indeterminacy and self-expression."
Clean Dishes with Queen Elizabeth
John Capitano
Painting - 100 x 72 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.3 x 1.6 inch
$1,924 $1,731
Clean Dishes with Lemon Squeezer & Blender #3
John Capitano
Painting - 112 x 112 x 4 cm Painting - 44.1 x 44.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,925
Siem Reap Restaurant #2
John Capitano
Painting - 107 x 71 x 4 cm Painting - 42.1 x 28 x 1.6 inch
$1,924 $1,731
February 9, Vancouver 2010
John Capitano
Painting - 67 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 26.4 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,386 $1,248
February 10, Vancouver 2010
John Capitano
Painting - 67 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 26.4 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,386 $1,248
February 14, Vancouver 2010
John Capitano
Painting - 62 x 117 x 4 cm Painting - 24.4 x 46.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,235
Space Invader in Hong Kong(Dragon)
John Capitano
Painting - 105 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,850 $1,666
Kowloon Street #2
John Capitano
Painting - 122 x 107 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 42.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,999 $2,699
Yellow Poppy(You have lost your edge)
John Capitano
Painting - 26 x 26 x 4 cm Painting - 10.2 x 10.2 x 1.6 inch
$272